{"id":2235,"date":"2007-08-26T12:34:03","date_gmt":"2007-08-26T16:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=2235"},"modified":"2013-01-21T13:38:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T18:38:59","slug":"how-to-avoid-the-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/08\/26\/how-to-avoid-the-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"How to avoid the weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/e\/e2\/Radar-Tour_and_radome.gif\/300px-Radar-Tour_and_radome.gif\" align=\"right\" \/>The long drought inconveniently ended on Friday night, just as I was about to ride a bike across the city. I wasn&#8217;t sure if I should wait for the rain to stop, or take transit. Googling around for a radar picture, I found the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/King_City_weather_radar_station\">King City weather station<\/a> feed on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weatheroffice.gc.ca\/radar\/index_e.html?id=WKR\">Environment Canada website<\/a>. It updates often, and you can customize it to show Southern Ontario details like highways and rivers. On Friday night the rain stretched from Toronto to Stratford, meaning it wasn&#8217;t ending anytime soon. So for the first time this month I used a rather pristine, unscratched and unswiped just-out-of-the-envelope August Metropass. It was a reminder at how efficient biking riding can be around town, and had me wondering why I still have the passes mailed to me.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday the showers were more spotty &#8212; it was neat to watch the colourful &#8220;rain&#8221; areas head to my neighbhourhood and then actually fall outside. This radar seems precise enough that you could plan your own trip around the city to avoid rain drops. There are also other weather stations you can click on for other parts of Ontario and Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The long drought inconveniently ended on Friday night, just as I was about to ride a bike across the city. I wasn&#8217;t sure if I should wait for the rain to stop, or take transit. Googling around for a radar picture, I found the King City weather station feed on the Environment Canada website. 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