Comments on: How To Perfect Your Weather Planning For Bicycle Touring

By: kai

kai — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 04:27:00 +0000

yr dot no. especially their rain radar predictions. nuff said

By: Alee | CyclingAbout.com

Alee | CyclingAbout.com — Fri, 19 May 2017 10:36:00 +0000

In reply to AlaskaFRS. Great point, Phil!

By: AlaskaFRS

AlaskaFRS — Thu, 18 May 2017 22:28:00 +0000

Thanks for the article, but you left out something I’ve always found critical if I’m planning to camp out. As the author of another bike touring web site discovered in Alaska, you need to always check the record temps as well as the averages. In Alaska and I’m betting a lot of places, the actual weather can vary greatly from the averages. For example, in October the average high and low here is 30F and 15F respectively. But the record low is 0F (-19C) with a high of +50F/+10C. So, if I’m planning to camp out in October, I’ll be prepared for 0F/-20C and hope for +50F/10C. If you’ve got a warm room waiting at the end of the day it’s not so critical. Thanks again. Phil

By: Ron Nicolas

Ron Nicolas — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 11:48:00 +0000

In reply to Alee | CyclingAbout.com. Yeah, wind is the bugger. Low temps I can deal with, but high winds are a mood killer. By the way, thanks for all you have shared for the rest of us over the last few years. Your experiences and sharing of them have been a big help to me in many different ways.

By: Alee | CyclingAbout.com

Alee | CyclingAbout.com — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 08:44:00 +0000

In reply to Ron Nicolas. Thanks for the suggestion! Wind data is generally only accurate a few days out, but I still like checking the long-term trends to see which way to do a point-to-point tour.

By: Ron Nicolas

Ron Nicolas — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 00:46:00 +0000

Here in the States I have used usclimatedata.com quite a bit. It gives a good bit of data for temperatures and precip. down to the city level, as well as historical data which has been helpful given the changing weather patterns over the last couple of years. But, alas, no wind direction data. For that I generally can’t get anything reliable farther than 10 days out. Granted predicting long-term wind patterns on a continent so large is difficult especially given the drastic swings in weather which can occur especially in the Spring and Autumn months.