Originally Posted by
palesaint
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Now I am back up in the mountains (<7000 feet elevation). It is NEVER pleasant riding in the rain here. It's freezing. The rain hurts and more often than not turns into hail. I now avoid riding is it's anything over 20% chance of rain.
This.
and there's always lightening.
Here, you can usually wait 20 minutes or so and ride between waves of storms.