Today 10/26 was even WARMER than yesterday ..... 78° F on the RT dashboard, I know it reads a little high. But 76° is nothing to scoff at..... It's still 64° (@ 9 PM), I just may take a short Night jaunt ...... Mike :thumbup:
Little bit off the usual temps for your part of the World at this time of the year, isn't it?!? :dontknow:
Mind you, talking about '
a little bit off the usual' in temps & weather.... here in South Oz we're heading into the last third of Spring, there's only 4 weeks plus a few days until Summer is officially here, so we'd normally be seeing o/night LOWS of 20-ish° C (about 70° F) and daily HIGHS pushing the high 20's - low 30's (80 - 90-ish° F) or maybe higher; but our o/night LOWS are rarely/barely making 10° C (50° F) & I don't think we've had a daily HIGH much over 25° C (approx 77° F) for a bit of a while now!! :shocked: And it's
STILL bloody raining...
HARD! :banghead: And it's doing that all the way across the country from where we are in the eastern/middle of the Southern edge, right on & over the Eastern Coast/edge of the Continent!! :yikes:
Normally, at this time of the year we'd be getting the odd sprinkle of rain & an occasional day of steady soaking rain, but for a while now it's been heavy rain, just about every day; the ground is sooo waterlogged it's not funny!
Farmers here can't get the necessary machinery out into their paddocks, most don't even try cos it's clearly gonna bog, but for those who take a chance & risk it, invariably it ends up stuck & gonna stay exactly
where it got stuck too, sunk at least a couple of feet into the ground; so it'll stay there until the ground dries out enough to recover it! But further East from here, a lot of
their machinery is feet
under water! There's a lot of flooding over that way, and the high river levels haven't really made it this far.... yet! :helpsmilie:
Just about all the road surfaces around here are lifting, either in patches or in whole sheets - it's not pot-holes you've gotta watch out for, it's bleedin'
vehicle swallowing sink holes!! Road & rail cuttings & batters are slipping & giving way under
any load, so there's crews out madly working on them
all the time! And just to add to all that, anywhere the ground lost cover cos it got burnt in the last few
baaadd bushfire summers, the top-soil & then some is now well on its way out into the Tasman Sea, the Coral Sea, & the Southern, or Pacific Oceans!! :gaah:
And on the Spyder Ryding front, there's been the odd warmish/dryish day or two, so while I have been able to do
some riding (I did get in a day or two of wet weather tire testing on some pre-release tires too!
hyea: ) there's been quite a few weeks this year where I haven't even managed to rack up 1000 km (620-ish miles)!! And while I normally wouldn't think twice about riding in light/medium rain... I'm slowly training up my new Assistance Dog, Buster, and since he loves riding with me in
good weather, I really don't want to turn him off riding altogether by repeatedly taking him out & getting him soaked in this bloody rain!! He's about the same size & weight as my last Assistance Dog, Max the Maltese (who passed a couple of years back at 18 years old!
) but Buster's juuust a touch taller & lankier than Max was, and he likes to 'stretch out' where Max liked to 'curl up', so while Buster is OK in the larger tank bag in the dry, where he can sit up & survey his adoring public as we pass, he doesn't really fit down into any of my current tank bags to get any protection from bad weather; nor is the small 'pillion seat mounted, enclosed Pet Palace' that I have suitable for him to stretch out in.... so wet weather riding isn't all that viable atm! :sour:
Ahh well, at least I'm still getting up in the mornings & finding plenty of things that I
can do; and right now, I'm even well enough to do them too!! So apart from the weather, Life is really pretty good!
hyea: But it certainly is juuust '
a little bit off the usual weather' atm, isn't it?!?
...This morning the sun is shining and some clouds, currently 62°F. Going to be another great Weekend here in Indiana. No rain in the forecast for today or tomorrow. 
