To be utterly sick of this weather?

It’s grey and breezy but not wet so far in my part of Suffolk.

I’ve been spring cleaning the house and built a chest of drawers. Hoping to get a few garden jobs done if weather allows.

I think I read that harsher winters (more snow) are also indicative of of climate catastrophe as well as hot hot summers. Ditto months and months with very little rain followed by torrential downpours.

I haven’t voted because neither option fits with what I’m thinking.
Yes we’ve had some grim weather, some boring. But it’s been Autumn and now winter. Tis what it is. Spring will arrive etc.
Honestly if all you’ve got to moan about is that it’s a bit cold, wet and dull, count your blessings.

Because it absolutely is 100% that bad.

Dry walk - put on shoes and coat, leave house. Walk, come home, take shoes and coat off.

Walking after 5 solid days of rain - get everyone into wet weather clothes, wellies, puddlesuits. Go for walk through 3 inches of mud, one of the kids usually falls over and starts crying. Get home soaked, run dog through house to back garden, strip kids off, shove clothing in washing machine, run back to garden to shampoo dog who has a very thick coarse coat and rolls is everything going. Run back instead soaked again from the rain, grab towel, grab hairdryer, dry off dog who also shakes all over the house. Dog locked in kitchen until dry. Mop all the muddy and wet footprints up, wipe down wellies, also any furniture she has covered by shaking.

See the difference?

Yes, why?

You’re not rural are you?

Given that my heating failed, I'm grateful it hasn't been frosty. The pump is being replaced as I type so it can do whatever it likes now.

OP, go for a walk through countryside. It is never as bad as you imagine.

Sorry lovey, very observant, just a pity I don't toe the acceptable MN line. Someone recalled 2010 upthread, the year we'd just moved here, it was horrendous, though to fit the mantra let's call it a statistical outlier, like 2018 or 19 when we were stranded on top of a snowdrift in the village where the wind had blown the snow across the road and we had to be towed out.

I don't mind the rain so much, it usually doesn't rain all day (with the exception of last Sunday, when the rain actually didn't stop all day until the evening). I have a reasonable amount of control over my working schedule, and find I feel a lot better if I manage to get out for a half hour walk at least in a 'dry' window.

But the darkness 😣. Can't stand the days when it's dark at 3pm. Some days recently, it hasn't brightened up at all. It's like living in some awful grey nether world.

I wish I could feel this way but the days are so short. It's the early darkness and the rain that get me, if it would just get dark a bit later and be a bit drier, we've had weeks of grey rainy weather. I don't mind the cold. Actually now I've said all that I think it's the rain that's the worst, days and days of it.

I don’t mind it. I go out for walks in all weathers and the Christmas season makes up for the misery with the weather. By mid February I’m dragging myself around utterly miserable though. I hate January and February.

I find it quite cosy. We live in a house in the countryside which is very exposed, and we have no loft upstairs so the wind and rain is quite obvious when it's battering the house and we're laid in bed. We call it cave weather.

It's amazing though that so many Christmas adverts still have tonnes of snow in them. Still it's one of the main images of Christmas.

I wonder if they'll give up on that eventually?

It makes me feel claustrophobic when it's raining.

I've had a year of dealing with hospitalisations of both my elderly parents; driving to see them at least weekly now to help them with resulting lifestyle challenges. It was so much less miserable doing it when, on my drive home, it was still light and the roads weren't treacherously wet. Less stressful.

YANBU. But things tend to happen in circles. It was a very dry spring and winter. Even autumn was dry and mild for a lot of it. I’d rather it pissed it down for the entire winter if it means we get a spring summer like we had this year!

We’ll be at the shortest day of the year soon which is when we go round the U bend!

No doubt you’ll get some of these cosy types coming on here to tell you about their twinkly lights and stew and hot bloody chocolate!!!

I voted YANBU and you aren’t; I feel the same. That said, we have had such amazing weather this year, so I am trying to remind myself of that.

I kind of love the stormy weather but I understand that for some it gets them down. Also I do need to go out and do some christmas shopping tomorrow which will probably be a nightmare if the trains are even on!

YANBU although (at least where I am) we did have some lovely sunny, if freezing cold, days last week. The kind of day I wanted to escape in the middle of the day to go for a walk - knowing that by the time I finished work it would be going dark again.

I commented to DH the other day, this feels like Christmas weather. I only remember 1 or 2 snowy Christmases in my life, usually it's grey and damp and going dark by the time Christmas dinner is finished.

Rumours of a major incident in north Wales (train vs tree, but doesn't sound terrible), also leisure centre roof is off, secondary school closed for damage, and it was recycling day in Bangor...

I hate this weather, there isn't even any point in opening the curtains. I hate being cold and don't like going out in this weather. I get very inward in the winter and just don't want to socialise. In the summer I'm a completely different person. I often think I was born and bred in the wrong country!

Yeah, I'm north, but not that far north!!!

It’s not “cosy” though because it’s not cold. It’s mild wet dark muddy and muggy. You’d have to be a supreme optimist (or mental) to find much pleasure in this combination.

Pah! That's a mere breeze. We're in the Hebrides and about to get our arses kicked again.

Last winter we had snow and ice that stayed for 10 days. It was the most snow we had had for years.

And 16 degrees in Huddersfield!