{"id":226711,"date":"2025-01-03T21:31:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T02:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mafw.org\/weather\/"},"modified":"2025-01-15T14:21:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T19:21:56","slug":"weather-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mafw.org\/staging\/weather-post\/","title":{"rendered":"WEATHER"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">With winter upon us I just want to point out the section of the Ride Leader Handbook related to weather as indicated below.&nbsp; On New Years Day Vinny and I led a ride from Denville where they were predicting 40 mph gusts and rain.&nbsp; We carefully monitored the weather and determined that wind and rain would hold off until end of ride.&nbsp; In case the weathermen were wrong we had plans that we shared with the 15 riders to shorten the ride.&nbsp; I swept and Vinny led and we kept everyone together with occasional regroupings.&nbsp; We were able to complete the ride before the rain and wind.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Happy New Year, Manny<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a name=\"_Toc22757624\"><\/a>Weather<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the weather is clearly inappropriate for riding (e.g., rain, snow, ice or extreme wind), you should cancel your ride. Remember that wind can be as dangerous as precipitation and ice; flying garbage can lids, tree branches, and other windborne debris can make riding hazardous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the weather is questionable &#8211; e.g., there\u2019s a greater than 50% probability of precipitation, it\u2019s extremely windy (wind gusts of 15 mph or more), it\u2019s very cold (under 30 degrees) or hot (over 90 degrees temperature or RealFeel\u2122) &#8211; it\u2019s your responsibility to decide whether to cancel the ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With winter upon us I just want to point out the section of the Ride Leader Handbook related to weather as indicated below.&nbsp; On New Years Day Vinny and I led a ride from Denville where they were predicting 40 mph gusts and rain.&nbsp; We carefully monitored the weather and determined that wind and rain &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"WEATHER\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/mafw.org\/staging\/weather-post\/#more-226711\" aria-label=\"Read more about WEATHER\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3964,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ride-coordinator-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafw.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafw.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafw.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafw.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3964"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafw.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mafw.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafw.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafw.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafw.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}