Sick of shit weather

in your area! aIts almost like different places in the uk can experience rain and gloom while others it dry!

@DevilsAdvocate101 i agree i hate it. i get SAD this time of year. i go to work it’s dark, come home it’s dark. Work in a&e with minimal daylight.

Then on days off it’s often wet, dark, windy, mushy leaves everywhere. I try and get outside but no one enjoys walking in relentless rain!! Autumn looks beautiful when it’s dry and the colours shine through but it’s minimal days rather than the norm.

I do it every day, several times. Dog walks twice a day and a run 3 times a week. And at the weekends I go for long hikes, regardless of the weather! And usually I am camping!

It’s just rain, you aren’t made of paper.

At the moment it’s quite mild, so I often leave my legs bare- skin dried much quicker than clothes.

It's autumn, almost winter. It's mid November. That do you expect?

I like most weather. Autumn is probably my favourite season.
But the incessant threatening greyness accompanied by very mild temperatures is really getting to me. It isn't "normal" autumn at all.

I always think this when Labour want to tax the rich to high heaven. It’s not like the UK has good weather and safety going for it…. If I was super rich I would totally go to somewhere with better weather!!!

Where do you live, OP?

Because we've had a bit of rain in Birmingham but an awful lot of blue sky and autumnal sunshine.

It's really mild and so the heating hasn't been needed (and I live in an old, poorly insulated house).

The grey overcast wet weather has barely started. I don't know how you can be sick of it. We went out for a walk in the countryside on Saturday and spent the rest of the day in the garden. It was lovely. All we've done is comment on how nice the weather is currently!

A heatwave, severe snow and absolute downpours I can understand being frustrated by. Weather that actually impacts on people's ability to do life normally for a brief period is a bit irritating. But it's weather. Absolutely no point in getting wound up by it. It happens every year.

I hate dull weather. I would rather take sunny but cold over lack of sunshine every day. So far this Autumn the weather has been mild with little rain.

I’m wondering if I should return to the summer duvet

@DevilsAdvocate101op I am from the same area and I’m completely with you. Our house is boiling every morning with 0 heating on through the night. I actually don’t mind the cold weather but when it’s pissing down with rain but you’re sweating in your coat it’s just horrible.

It's shit. DH works outdoors all day, every day, so we struggle to get his work clothes dry in the evening before his next shift. And his boots never dry out.

This is it for the next 4-5 months now, it’s called a UK winter. Unless you have just moved here from
somewhere near the equator I am sure you have experienced winter before? Happens every year.

Saturday was lovely where I live. I got loads of gardening done.

It's been lovely up until yesterday. I was still in a tshirt outside in the sun on Saturday. It's barely been grey.

I actually cycled over 60km on Friday (got v wet in one 20 min downpour then dried off), went for a 2 hour walk at a well known garden on Sat and sat outside in the sunshine having coffee. Then had another long walk on Sunday. Not sunny but dry. Sure Monday was wet, but it’s November!

It’s all those threads moaning about summer weather. Every time someone moans about the heat, a ray of sunshine dies.

Whereabouts in Oz? I am in WA and its a glorious 32 today.

Bullshit. We have all the gear in triplicate. We're outside a lot in bad weather. And it's shite. You then have to try and dry all the stuff which you can dry quickly because it damages it.

Me too!! Im sooooo happy!!!!

Everyone always says oh just put on some waterproofs and go splash in puddles. Presumably rain is a novelty for them as it's not fun when the rain is sideways and relentless, and then for the fourth time in a day you have to hang wet stuff all over the house. Between dog walks, working outside, the school runs and taking the toddler out I'm sick of it. People who say it doesn't matter and to get out regardless don't do it day in day out. Everything is shitter in the rain.

I hate (being out in) the rain, but I hate it even more when it's hot outside. So I'll gladly accept the rain right now

Rain is a good thing. We had a hosepipe ban in the south east for most of the summer. It is extremely mild still down here. Climate change is real.

I don't recall October as being that dull.

The weather is poor even though I don't have much in the way of expectations at this time of year. It could be worse, at least there are not widespread flooding rains since the very dry first half of the year has left the hydrology with a lot of slack to absorb excess rain, but to be good, it is insufficient to be better than the worst.

Whether it is winter or not (it isn't, it is still autumn) is irrelevant, the lack of sunshine and rain nearly every day is depressing, especially at a time of year when you know you have at least three months of similar crapness due to the fact that winter in lowland UK, especially southern England, is little more than a cooler version of autumn.

We have just had one of the dullest October's on record and November has also started off dreadful for lack of sun and near daily rainfall. It is not surprising people are sick of it. In the good old days, we used to have mobile weather systems that brought rain for a few hours, followed by a clearance behind the cold front and polar maritime air bringing sunshine and showers. Now, we seem to be getting semi-permanent clag with light levels so low you need the lights on all day. The other problem with this type of weather is that if you don't have a tumble dryer, it is a pain getting laundry dried. It is too mild to put the heating on, too wet and humid to peg clothes outside, and it takes days to dry clothes indoors on a clothes rack without putting the heating on even when you don't need it.

Try telling that to the Jamacians. Alternatively, tell me what appropriate clothing to wear for a five mile bike ride in the rain with temperatures in the mid to high teens that will keep the rain off my clothes, but also prevent me from overheating and sweating.

I could have done with appropriate clothing to prevent me from getting badly buffeted in 40-50 mph crosswinds when hiking in the Snowdonia mountains last Easter.

The weather here (NE Scotland) is driving me bonkers - it’s so mild, but also wet. Today when I went to work - 30 minute walk - it was tipping it down, but about 14 degrees. I was boiling in my hooded coat, and we had to have windows open at work because we can’t adjust the temperature. I was wandering around in just a t-shirt at one point as it was too warm with my cardigan on. I hate the cold but would rather it was cooler/dry.