Rain was forecast here but I looked out of the window and the sky was blue; beautiful sunshine. I needed to go to the shops, so I decided to ride there, drop my shopping off afterwards, then go for a longer ride. I wrote a shopping list, topped up my tyre pressures, and was putting my cycling shoes on when... I noticed it had suddenly gone dark outside! I looked out of the window again and could see that It was peeing down about 100 metres down the road. 5 seconds later it started here.
That was about 20 minutes ago. I bet if I go and look again I will see that it has stopped... Yep - crazy weather! I'll do the ride to the shops, but it looks like it will be raining again in half an hour*** so I'll give the longer ride a miss. Tomorrow is looking more favourable for that, and Friday perhaps for a metric century.
I was just looking at videos of the flooding in the Yorkshire Dales. One scene looked familiar, apart from the fact that it was under water. It was near the Dales Bike Centre, which we called in at on the annual Dales forum ride a few years ago.
*** Pah - I got caught out on the way to the shops! Fortunately, I had taken a spare carrier bag with me so I put that over the saddle while I shopped. When I came back out the rain had stopped but there was a puddle on the protective bag which would have been soaked into the saddle otherwise.