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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (14 children)

Anyone who has ridden in rain and adverse weather would know one reason cars are more popular.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (8 children)

Danish citizens cycle in rain with no issue.

Of course the workplaces accomodate for that.

You just need the whole society to revolve around bike transport, and it will become normal to ride in the rain.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah… pretty sure Denmark doesn’t get regular thunderstorms or hail storms.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why are you "pretty sure" about that? Did you give it any thought?

https://www.essl.org/cms/category/news/

6 July: A supercell produced a swath of very large hail across Denmark. Hail had very eccentric shapes with pronounced lobes, leading to very large dimensions across the longest axis, up to an estimate of 10.5 cm

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I never said they don’t get hail, I said they don’t get regular hail. In general, hail is uncommon in Denmark, and large hail is even more rare.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Well ofc that depends on how regularly you mean, but it's definitely multiple times annually.

But yes, those are record ones.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was speaking anecdotally, but it’s good to back that up with some data.

https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2023/egusphere-2023-176/egusphere-2023-176.pdf

Page 15, Table 1 shows a clean table, with Denmark in the bottom 10 for large hail size in European countries; relative to places like Germany, large hail (the kinds you’d really want to avoid while on a bike) in Denmark is considerably more rare. That study only has two citations, though, so not the greatest source.

This survey is much better cited and comments on hail throughout Europe and in Denmark, but I can’t access the PDF at the moment: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0169809516300291

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I understand.

My point point is the definition of regular.

regular

Definitions from Oxford Languages · Learn more adjective

1.
arranged in or constituting a constant or definite pattern, especially with the same space between individual instances.
"plant the flags at regular intervals"

h Similar: methodical systematic

Like in Finland, Denmark has a hail season. It's not that prominent compared to other places, but it is there and it is regular.

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