Extended forecast

[Speedblastr]

Touko's got the controlling idea - look at your "give a shit meter". In fact, throw the meter in the trash because if you give it close thought, you probably don't really give a shit anyway!

YEP ! I'm rollin' no matter what. I've been plannin' this for a year. Got to get away.
Motorcycle therapy !
It's like reading side effects on medicine prescriptions, you'd better not unless you have an adverse reaction ! ( It pulls a head trip)

[Touko]

Yeah, so now it's saying mostly cloudy with a "chance" of rain on Wedn; for Christ sakes I get all geared up to dodge the clouds all day and sometimes beat the rain and sometimes hang out under a bridge with a good smoke and now it's just a chance? Oh, so rain on Wedn. night and Thurs. night will make up for it? Here I am sleeping snug as a bug while the rain makes that oh so natural sleep sound on the roof of my tent whilst I fall into a Rip-Van-Winkle type coma and I'm supposed to care? If the weather men can do no better than this then I'll just have to succumb to New England weather at it's finest.




Touko

[bennybmn]

As long as you set up your tent so you don't wake up in a puddle

[Speedblastr]

As long as you set up your tent so you don't wake up in a puddle

Right On ! Remember Benny , don't shit yourself ! Remember ? LOL
Back of tent to the west.

[Touko]

As long as you set up your tent so you don't wake up in a puddle

Wake up? Man, from the weather report it says there's gonna be 10 hours of rain Wedn. night. I can't remember when I had the luxury of sleeping 10 hours so I might even pretend it's raining more and go for 11. Now Thurs. says only 9 hours of rain at night. They're not gonna jip me outta some extra zeezzz while I'm on holiday. I'm sleeping in and I don't care if it doesn't rain at all.



Touko

[Speedblastr]

As long as you set up your tent so you don't wake up in a puddle

Wake up? Man, from the weather report it says there's gonna be 10 hours of rain Wedn. night. I can't remember when I had the luxury of sleeping 10 hours so I might even pretend it's raining more and go for 11. Now Thurs. says only 9 hours of rain at night. They're not gonna jip me outta some extra zeezzz while I'm on holiday. I'm sleeping in and I don't care if it doesn't rain at all.



Touko

Touk' I like the way you think. You have a walking poet's attitude.

[Touko]

Thanks Speed; it's all in the eye of the beerholder.

[bonnevillebilly]

The forecast is most definitely looking funfuckentastic I can't wait to get there.

[mark]

Where are you guys looking at forecasts? Weather.com's forecast for Bennington isn't so rosy.

Saturday's supposed to be great, but there's a 40% chance of rain Friday and a 60% chance of rain Thursday. It's a little worse up here in Burlington.

I may wait till Friday morning to ride down based on this.

--mark

[TonUp]

I will be riding in the rain on thursday! Be there before 2:00pm



Tito


Ton Up!

[Boosted Thrills]

From weather.gov for Bennington, VT:

Thursday: Showers likely, with thunderstorms also possible after 2pm. Cloudy, with a high near 67. East wind between 3 and 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Thursday Night: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm. Cloudy, with a low around 59. South wind between 3 and 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Friday: A chance of showers. Cloudy, with a high near 71. Southeast wind around 5 mph becoming southwest. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.

Friday Night: A slight chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 50. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Saturday: A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 71. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Saturday Night: A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 46. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 66.

Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 42.

[Boosted Thrills]

If you look at accuweather.com, On Thursday around 1pm it says it will rain, then maybe again later that night. Same for Friday, and Saturday looks good. Which do you believe? I don't have any wet weather gear so planning around it is getting tricky.

[mark]

Weather.com is saying 60% chance of rain Friday, high of 72; partly cloudy Saturday, high of 68; and mostly sunny Sunday, high of 68.

The National Weather Service says 50% chance of showers on Friday, high of 71; mostly cloudy with 30% chance of showers on Saturday with a high of 71, and mostly sunny on Sunday with a high of 66.

So at least the weekend ought to be pretty decent. Friday might be a little soggy though.

--mark

[bennybmn]

If you look at accuweather.com, On Thursday around 1pm it says it will rain, then maybe again later that night. Same for Friday, and Saturday looks good. Which do you believe? I don't have any wet weather gear so planning around it is getting tricky.

I'd look into something, even like a Walmart gorton's fisherman yellow suit. It's nice that it's not going to be hot, so you can toss on some rain paints and not get soaked from sweat! DAys like that, I like to wear my rain pants, then stop and throw on the jacket as needed. Pants are a pain to wrangle on roadside.

[matts1050]

I think next year we should move up the event by 1 week!