{"id":1440,"date":"2009-12-19T20:26:28","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T20:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.assortedexplorations.com\/blog\/?p=1440"},"modified":"2023-03-01T02:30:10","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T02:30:10","slug":"a-good-covering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.assortedexplorations.com\/outdoors\/a-good-covering\/","title":{"rendered":"A good covering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was out earlier this evening on an A to B trip on my bike when a shower of sleet came upon me, not a problem with my being appropriately attired. Even if I got snow, the lugs on my mountain bike's tyres would have coped; yes, they are staying inflated so far. Speaking of the fluffy while stuff, there is a plentiful supply of that emanating from the sky right now and it is coating everywhere in white. Getting about on foot now looks like a job for my North Face Hedgehogs and any wondering about a pre-Christmas outdoors outing could have snow-covered countryside on the agenda. Methinks that I need to decide where to go, a task that may or may not be made easier by my adding an at a glance collection of Met Office mountain weather forecast summaries on here. After all, there is a need for preparation for the prevailing conditions, as last Friday in Cheshire proved by its feeling like being in a chest freezer with fans turned on. Without any wind, daytime temperatures were around freezing in the lowlands anyway and below that (-2.5\u00b0 C) in Buxton and Leek. With temperatures like those, it's best not to be rushing out to become a mountain rescue statistic.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"770\" height=\"547\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1442 size-full\" title=\"Snow-covered field near Nether Alderley from earlier this year, Cheshire, England\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assortedexplorations.com\/outdoors\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/englandCheshire_snowSceneHockerLane2.jpg\" alt=\"Snow-covered field near Nether Alderley from earlier this year, Cheshire, England\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was out earlier this evening on an A to B trip on my bike when a shower of sleet came upon me, not a problem with my being appropriately attired. Even if I got snow, the lugs on my mountain bike&#8217;s tyres would have coped; yes, they are staying inflated so far. Speaking of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,51,90,9,83,29,32,33],"tags":[2027,2026,637,423,1343,1409,2024,1344,2025,2019],"class_list":["post-1440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cheshire","category-cycling","category-derbyshire","category-outdoor-gear","category-staffordshire","category-trip-ideas","category-walking","category-weather","tag-fluffy","tag-hedgehog","tag-met-office","tag-nature","tag-phases-of-matter","tag-precipitation","tag-rubber","tag-snow","tag-tire","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assortedexplorations.com\/outdoors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assortedexplorations.com\/outdoors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assortedexplorations.com\/outdoors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assortedexplorations.com\/outdoors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assortedexplorations.com\/outdoors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.assortedexplorations.com\/outdoors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assortedexplorations.com\/outdoors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assortedexplorations.com\/outdoors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assortedexplorations.com\/outdoors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}