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We need more dylithium crystals captain.

Published on September 1, 2007 By Steve Chippy Paine

Location: SürthDistance since last post:15kmWeather: warm but cloudy and wet.Notes: Always wear tight underwear when cycling! A business issue this morning cost me 25% of my battery power and with the current weather situation, cloudy and wet, that could cost me dearly. There was a brief bright period at around noon where i slammed on [...]

Tour day-plan.

Published on August 23, 2007 By Steve Chippy Paine

Planning a busman’s holiday around the weather isn’t that easy. Camp set-up and break down, cycling between locations, working, keeping an eye on the weather, finding suitable places to work and charging power sources all need to be thought about. The key to success here (in our wonderfully changeable weather system) is to be flexible between 10:00 [...]

Chocks away for the Solar UMPC Tour!

Published on August 22, 2007 By Steve Chippy Paine

And that is about as good as its going to get I think. Time is running out fast and a good weather window is approaching. ‘Only’ 20-30% chance of rain. 6 hours of sun per day. 28th, 29th and 30th don’t look too fantastic but I’m afraid I’m going to have to take the risk. [...]

9 days rain ahead.

Published on August 9, 2007 By Steve Chippy Paine

I know that weather is supposed to be chaos but this is just silly. The most settled weather we’ve had this year was back in April and since then its been a real mess. It doesn’t look like it wants to change much either. The whole of central Europe is stuck in a mess of [...]

Solar UMPC Tour weather update.

Published on June 24, 2007 By Steve Chippy Paine

The  latest weather report is still bad. No chance of leaving in the next 10 days unless the weather report is wildly wrong. Its unbelievable! We  had the hottest, driest  April ever and since then the clouds and rain just won’t go away and summer storms are threatening almost every day. Looking at the sun graph for the last three days [...]

Solar testing on hold.

Published on May 11, 2007 By Steve Chippy Paine

Isnt it typical? Just hours after starting the solar panel testing last week it started to get cloudy. You can even see the first clouds appearing on the sun power graph that I used on the first test. Ever since then the weather has been bad. Look at the last three days below. With weather [...]