I've been watching the weather radar online lately, but today I took off right as a fairly thick rain started, and it ended when I got to my daughter's daycare. But there was a brutal headwind the whole way, both with and without the rain.
Oh yes, tearing down the main drag as fast as possible to get to the daycare, I was noticing the road was *really* bumpy, then THUMP, that was my pannier w/ my 6 month old laptop sailing away and crashing to the pavement. It starts up fine, anyway.