Originally Posted by
sknhgy
Do not listen to the weather forecasts. Go outside and see how it feels to you. Listening to today's forecasts, you would think the apocalypse was coming. It didn't feel too bad to me. I went and rode singletrack for a couple of hours. Pretty much out of the wind. It was excellent.
Exactly my POV about the commercial weather doomsayers, too much like broadcast news or newspapers, "if it bleeds it leads" school of journalism and meteorology. The WC for example is now owned by NBC, they want to make it a force in programing rather than sticking to the simple weather information we actually need. If it can be sensationalized it will be broadcast, loudly. It is pretty much a matter of checking the thermometer we have outside, walking around in the clear to judge the winds and watch the sky a few minutes before kitting up and heading out, for me. I am the prototypical dinosaur, I suppose.
Bill