Okay, you want to talk about wind. It was a windy day already, perhaps 40 km/h side winds. Very tough. About the halfway point it picked up and then the rain came. Gusts were apparently up to 80 km/h and whipping the rain sideways. I could literally see the next gust coming by the rain hitting the ground, like in buckets. I had to take shelter behind a Costco for ten minutes until the storm passed. It just wasn't safe to ride under these conditions. The panniers loaded with groceries didn't help matters.



Funny enough, the sky cleared right up after, and the wind died down to about 30 km/h.