Eastern Edges Today (Read 800191 times)

lagerstarfish · December 20, 2014, 09:55:00 am

damp tooling?

nai · December 20, 2014, 10:12:53 am

Sound the connies claxon

tomtom · December 20, 2014, 10:23:00 am

It did that here in Manchester - then had a 5 min torrential downpour..

nai · December 20, 2014, 10:58:47 am

Quote from: tomtom on December 20, 2014, 10:23:00 am

It did that here in Manchester - then had a 5 min torrential downpour..

Yep, same as

cha1n · December 20, 2014, 12:11:56 pm

There must be a high chance of stuff drying out?

Going by my 'looking at the walls of the half-built block of flats out the back of my house' method, all the walls are looking very dry and they usually stay very wet due to their orientation.

nai · December 20, 2014, 12:26:54 pm

Looking better and better, doubt you're going to rock up anywhere to find it all dry but if you look in the right places you'll probably find something dry.

Johnny Brown · December 20, 2014, 12:31:38 pm

More rain incoming ( though Yorkshire looks to miss most), but I'm confident I'll get something done...

lagerstarfish · December 20, 2014, 01:19:25 pm

Quote from: Johnny Brown on December 20, 2014, 12:31:38 pm

I'm confident I'll get something done...

Christmas shopping?

cha1n · December 20, 2014, 01:29:52 pm

Never tried hamper's hang or a case of mistaken identity. Think I might go have a look...

cha1n · December 20, 2014, 02:33:24 pm

Drove as far as Burbage when a substantial rain shower hit. Note that the current weather in Sheffield is in no way representative of the weather out there!

Well I tried, works it is...

Johnny Brown · December 20, 2014, 04:54:55 pm

Worth remembering there are other crags in the area. We had a decent session at Rivelin from where we could see the rain marching over Stanage. You could see Agden in the sun from Ringinglow, and I'm sure Wharncliffe was good too.

stone · December 20, 2014, 05:33:05 pm

Cratcliffe was quite good this afternoon too.

Top Tip:- the bbc weather site can give quite different forecasts for say Matlock, Hope or Leek :-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2642910

Also I find this handy :-
http://www.derbyshireheritage.co.uk/Menu/webcams/camlist.php

Johnny Brown · December 20, 2014, 07:18:25 pm

On days like today forget the forecasts and watch the radar www.raintoday.co.uk to track individual rain clouds.

fatdoc · December 20, 2014, 08:22:42 pm

Awesome advice. Saved to bookmarks. Nice one.

Johnny Brown · December 20, 2014, 08:53:47 pm

I've also shelled out a couple of quid for the Home and Dry phone app which gives you both a detailed radar for the last few hours but also projects forwards a few hours. It's not perfect but predicted the big late shower over Stanage well today from three hours before.

Falling Down · December 21, 2014, 11:38:18 am

The WeatherPro premium subscription (£3.99 a year) also has a rain radar forecast that's pretty damn accurate up to three hours out. That and the detailed hourly forecast makes it well worth the dosh.

Will Hunt · December 21, 2014, 11:50:27 am

Has anyone tied the rain radar data into a list of crag coordinates yet? How would this be done?

Johnny Brown · December 21, 2014, 12:01:44 pm

Not sure what you mean? You want the underlying map to show crags, or some way of showing when it last rained at a given crag?

tomtom · December 21, 2014, 12:04:59 pm

Quote from: Falling Down on December 21, 2014, 11:38:18 am

The WeatherPro premium subscription (£3.99 a year) also has a rain radar forecast that's pretty damn accurate up to three hours out. That and the detailed hourly forecast makes it well worth the dosh.

+1

cha1n · December 21, 2014, 12:21:38 pm

Quote from: Johnny Brown on December 20, 2014, 04:54:55 pm

Worth remembering there are other crags in the area. We had a decent session at Rivelin from where we could see the rain marching over Stanage. You could see Agden in the sun from Ringinglow, and I'm sure Wharncliffe was good too.

I don't really know the area all that well yet. I assumed that going to an exposed crag would mean that it would dry quickly and assumed that a sheltered crag (excluding limestone) would be wet and dry slowly.

I've never been to Rivelin. Is is likely to be dry today? I'd like to climb Purple Haze.

Johnny Brown · December 21, 2014, 01:07:05 pm

Today looks better than yesterday so far but I've not been out to check. Rivelin should be okay, yeah, it's a lot more exposed than the lime bouldering venues. Purple haze is slow to dry though, it was wet yesterday.

Dolly · December 21, 2014, 01:14:37 pm

Purple haze is wet. Just seeing if anything is dry but looks all wet ATM

cha1n · December 21, 2014, 01:14:45 pm

Thank you, I'll have a look through my guidebook and see if there's anything else there slopey on the left hand.

Fiend · December 21, 2014, 01:29:21 pm

Eastern Edges Wednesday...

Anyone care to hazard a guess after the bollox coming over on Mon/Tue??

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/forecast/gcqz6kgdxdtm

Quite prepared to head to the Matlock / Amber Valley area. Would prefer venues suitable for routes / soloing rather than overhanging nonsense.

Dolly · December 21, 2014, 03:05:48 pm

Few things OK - Acid Reign, Moontan but nothing further left I dont think