riding in a CC summer

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In case CC is not a familiar term, it will be ... soon. It stands for climate change, and almost always it refers to man-made climate change, the one we are already living with, the one which will get much worse soon.

So does it affect your riding already? Here is today's radar picture from Western Europe, one which looks like many others I have seen this summer. And these aren't bad days, there is no tornado, no major storm. Just rain: the little blue/black dots show extremely heavy rain, and more important (you cannot see this of course) these clusters are moving very slowly. In other words, when you get into one of them (diameter often 10-20km) you meet with all of the following: zero visibility, inches of water on the road, outpours from pipes, drivers unable to see you, etc. And if you keep riding in the wrong direction, it won't get any better for a seemingly very long time.

Now look at the extent of this phenomenon on the map, consider it keeps going hours after hours, only to return the next day or a few days later - this is something no rider can any longer ignore just counting on luck and a trench coat. And you guessed it, my guess, the forecasters have a hard time to warn you. The 6h forecast for that afternoon said showers and light rain.