To be utterly sick of this weather?

Nice for those who have the free time!

Not hurricanes 24/7.

We seem to be getting one day of sun and the next chucking it down.
Spent all day in the garden yesterday doing a winter tidy up. Was lovely and sunny.
Today is windy, wet and really dark.

I usually go camping (in the van) in early April, under about 3 duvets at night with the temperature hovering around zero 😆

It has been a particularly wet autumn. The third wettest since records began in 1836 in Ireland, the tenth wettest in Wales.

It’s shite. Belting down with rain here and about 60mph wind.

Bring on the bastard boiling heatwaves. Does my arthritis a world of good, unlike this shite, wet and cold and windy weather.

Newsflash. Its Winter. What do you expect.

Just been out running in it. Heaven. I get a nice cool shower as I go and I love getting home all wet, muddy and stinky and heading for a nice hot shower!

A bit windy, dark and rain. Actually quite warm, temperatures well above what you would expect for this time of year,15C where I am. That means the heating is off.

I like the contrast. Cold in winter and warm in summer. And yes the warm weather whingers who are out in force the minute the temperature gauge goes above 20C declaring it "intolerably hot" are pretty annoying after a long and grey winter.

It's wet, grey, and dark with the shortest days coming up. Christmas keeps me going. January's worse x

Yes I remember that one, we had weeks of snow.

Of course we’ve always had wetter, windier, milder winters, and every winter has had periods of this weather. But honestly even when pushing aside rose tinted romanticism, I remember at least half of winter as being frosty, with temperatures hovering around zero or slightly above. Probably a few flurries of snow, a couple of inches.

Now it does nothing but rain, that’s the difference.

That’s your personal observation which isn’t backed by evidence - things are getting milder and wetter

I guess you are alike a boiled frog - you don’t notice what’s happening around you

Well apart from December 2010 when it was absolutely freezing and the coldest edit December in about 100 years.

Nothing like the winters in the 90s/2000s. Post 2009-ish it got more like this, more regularly, and now every single Christmas is a hurricane and 12 degrees.

It seems to be just like the other 76 winters I have spent, except maybe when we lived abroad and occasionally had squeaky snow, proper snow as we call it still, the temperature is too low for it to melt and look dirty, it wore away like a thin road surface!

Temperature doesn't bother me, grey dark and soggy does. Being outside is just unpleasant.

I never understood why it's a White Christmas or a Green Christmas. It's not green, it's brown - mud, dead leaves, bare trees, soggy everything.

Oh spring definitely looks pretty, it fools me into skipping out into warm-looking sunshine then having to turn tail to wrap up in gloves/hat/scarf again (or just abandon my outing completely).

Autumn is the one that always surprises me - it's warmer for later than you think it is and every time there's a vaguely nice day I'm determined to make the most of it because I know winter's around the corner. Always have a nice autumn.

Agree @VaxMerstappen , spring is amazing. If I could live in perma-May I would be very happy.3

I used to love December when it was crisp, cold, frosty mornings. Bright blue skies at the same time. Now it's warmer but with a lot of rain. Rarely see frosts any more, let alone the regular snowfalls we had in the 70s, 80s and 90s.

It’s grey and vaguely drizzly. But it’s not cold and it’s not windy.

Yesterday was a beautiful day. I went for a very long walk and wore a light long sleeved top. Had my coat and scarf with me but way too warm for that in the winter sunshine.

Had to go for a run later in the evening with my head torch on Saturday because the drizzle just wouldn’t let up which was annoying but better than not going at all.

My long walk a few days earlier required my serious rain coat, waterproof trousers, gaiters and my rain hat so I’m not saying it never rains or anything but we can arrange accordingly.

When it’s pelting it down it is harder to get out and stretch your legs and get places, do hobbies etc but I think it’s important we do get out and do things anyway. I know the kids are leaving for school in the dark and walking home in the dark which is depressing and the house is full of mud and the animals always need cleaning! But at least we can get outside and then snug again inside enjoying the warmth and light, albeit with more faff.

Yes, summer SAD is a thing. I have it. I feel ill and depressed from late April to early September but June/July in particular has me struggling for survival with asthma, migraine and anxiety.

YANBU. Hideous season with no redeeming qualities.

Don't mind the greyness or darkness that much, apart from when I can't go for a run at 3pm because it'll get pitch black in 20 minutes. The cold is intolerable though, and I include what DP hilariously called today's "mild" temperatures. Tell that to my misbehaving sinuses and Raynaud's syndrome. And as for the rain I just feel trapped inside in a way I never do in summer. Obviously I've heard of coats or hats - I still refuse to leave the house unless I absolutely have to, because they don't make the outdoors pleasurable. That's impossible.

God I hate winter! Booked myself a last-minute getaway to Portugal last month, enjoyed being warm a lot, came back and was so horrified by the British weather that I immediately booked myself another.

Spring is no better, it takes until at least May before the temperature becomes acceptable here.

I really struggle with the dark and grey.

Every year we have a similar thread and people bang on about snuggling and blankets and hot chocolate - it's not about the temperature, it's about the light. Or lack of light. It is grey and dull where I am today and the lights will be on all day.

People like to romanticise autumn and winter as crisp and bright, crunching through leaves and frost but we rarely get that.

It has rained here for fucking weeks, I have had enough.

This morning I'm in a really bad mood about it!