I rode today. Did you?

Nice first ride in the COLD.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Zumwalt on April 19, 2013 at 9:44am

Minnesota is getting 5-7 inches according to the weather. We get ice pellets and snow! grrr.

Adam Herstein (5.5 mi) said:

Only in Chicago do you get 60 degrees and massive flooding one day, followed by snow the next.

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Permalink Reply by dan brown on April 19, 2013 at 9:54am

hey - anyone have a report on the street conditions near downtown ? i.e. are they slippery ??

it's been sleeting, snowing off-and-on all day downtown. thanks in advance

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Permalink Reply by Lisa Curcio on April 19, 2013 at 10:02am

I am at the Daley Center with a window looking west. Have seen almost no precipitation outside of a bit around noon. Looking at the street I can see--Randolph and Clark--looks dry to me.

dan brown 4.4 miles said:

hey - anyone have a report on the street conditions near downtown ? i.e. are they slippery ??

it's been sleeting, snowing off-and-on all day downtown. thanks in advance

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Permalink Reply by dan brown on April 19, 2013 at 10:10am

thanks. funny - I have a west view too (the chgo river) at Madison; and it's snowed/sleeted off-on all day. river-effect ? LOL

Lisa Curcio 4.0 mi said:

I am at the Daley Center with a window looking west. Have seen almost no precipitation outside of a bit around noon. Looking at the street I can see--Randolph and Clark--looks dry to me.

dan brown 4.4 miles said:

hey - anyone have a report on the street conditions near downtown ? i.e. are they slippery ??

it's been sleeting, snowing off-and-on all day downtown. thanks in advance

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Permalink Reply by Lisa Curcio on April 19, 2013 at 10:21am

There is a lot of water in that river right now--who knows? :-) I am about to head out and was quite excited to see that "strong winds might be causing power outages" and winds are WSW at 23 gusting to 40. Should be fun, especially around the tall buildings getting out of the Loop.

dan brown 4.4 miles said:

thanks. funny - I have a west view too (the chgo river) at Madison; and it's snowed/sleeted off-on all day. river-effect ? LOL

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Permalink Reply by Anne B. on April 19, 2013 at 10:37am

Lakefront Trail from Lawrence to Navy Pier was fine at around 3pm. Well, fine except for occasional hail hitting me in the face and an awful headwind. But not slippery.

dan brown 4.4 miles said:

hey - anyone have a report on the street conditions near downtown ? i.e. are they slippery ??

it's been sleeting, snowing off-and-on all day downtown. thanks in advance

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Permalink Reply by Lisa Curcio on April 19, 2013 at 11:39am

So it was dry, but whatever the precipitation was was sharp! And it was a nasty headwind going west.

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Permalink Reply by Melissa on April 19, 2013 at 12:06pm

I rode today in strong winds and light hail. (Light, but still pretty sharp on the face.)

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Permalink Reply by in it to win it 8.0 mi on April 19, 2013 at 12:25pm

Funny, the headwinds were N/S/E/W...

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Permalink Reply by spencewine on April 19, 2013 at 12:52pm

I had to take the LFP north after work and swore it was coming out of the north, then came back south on Halsted and swore it was coming from the south, but when I turned west....I knew then where it was coming from. The crosswind was strong enough that it felt like its coming from all directions.