From sun till hail

First, the weather was really great today. Forecast said it will stay nice, maybe some showers in the alps or in western Austria, but nice here all day long. And since you can’t sit at home on such a nice day, I went cycling. As Isaac suggested it, i went towards Maria Rain, looking if the Church was open for a pano, but nada. So, I just keeped cycling, nice track btw. Not very challenging from the terrain, but nice. Here’s a map.

Blue markers are photos, but just with the small one, first ones because I was mid-cycling and wanted to go somewhere, the later ones just with the small one because I was in hurry and under hail-attack.

It started all very nice, sun was out and barley a cloud in the sky. Really nice to cycle, maybe a bit to hot, but nice. It lasted more or less for 1/3 of the track, then I noticed some darker clouds, but nowhere near me. I thought I was save there.

Sadly, things started to change. First thing I noticed were some angry looking clouds from behind. Nothing to worry about I thought, unless I changed direction and was facing them now. Things have looked better for me.

Things got ugly first, when it started to rain, and then it started to get REALLY bad when the hail set in. Luckily, I was already on the way back then, riding along the railroad track, and they have those nice bridges across the railroad every few 100 meters. I went under one, then the wind started, and then I climbed up as high as possible to find shelter from the hail that entered the brige on the left side and with just minimal height loos, it left on the right side. As soon as I got up, a car took shelter under the bridge too, hail looked pretty bad.

At least, the hail didn’t last very long, around 10 min, then it started to clear up again. Normal summer weather. I went on, wanted to go home now, but I wasn’t getting home as fast as I thought, I found some (or plenty) raspberries on the way back, so I took a short break there. Rest of the travel back was boring and uninteresting.More photos can be found on Panoramio here

And some other good news. I found a spare keyboard, same as my old one was, just this one is mostly black with orange, while mine was mostly green with yellow. I won’t screw this upen and change cover (will break it again for sure), but the keys should be exchangeable. So now I have a black keyboard with orange outline and 2 set of keys, green and black. Ideas how to mix them?