To be utterly sick of this weather?

This is the reality of climate change. Winters in the U.K. are getting warmer, wetter & windier. The change is big enough, and it’s happening fast enough, that we all notice it in our daily lives.

I live in the East Midlands, a part of the country which is less prone to extreme weather. Yet in recent years we have seen unprecedented winter floods. Areas which are vulnerable to flooding have experienced it far more frequently than ever before. Areas which have never flooded before in living memory have been inundated. We haven’t had any proper, disruptive snowfall for years. It just doesn’t happen any more.

We have to prepare & adapt to the new realities.

It’s really affecting me this year and it’s making my rheumatoid arthritis much worse. We are flying for some winter sun in January and I cannot wait.

It's not that I love it or hate it it's just that it's the same each year and there's nothing we can do about it.
I also really don't think that a bit of rain is the end of the world.

Hi OP. Sorry, I dont mind it at all! I also love heatwaves and snow!

I took my dog for a walk just after 5am, it was blowy but so very warm and quite nice and refreshing. Light drizzle.

No heating on this morning as it was so mild overnight. Slept with the window open.

Though it's taking a while to get light in my office!

Agreed. We haven't been sleepwalking into this catastrophe for decades. We've been charging headlong into it and people are STILL in denial about it.

I actually love this weather, although appreciate I’m in the minority. I work from home and due to where I live, drive DD to school so for the most part we can both stay cosy. We’re in the Peak District so get a lot of rain/snow/cold but we just adapt - good waterproofs and the mindset of ‘it rains more than it doesn’t’ helps! We do have one super anti-rain greyhound though - no sign of a walk this morning but hopefully we’ll get a break from the rain at some point to pop out with him although being a greyhound, he doesn’t care either way 🙃

It is winter and it is the UK. It is going to be dark and dull and rainy.

You may as well complain that grass is green.

We are actually very lucky in the UK in our weather. We don't risk losing our houses in tornadoes, or suffer the extreme hurricanes like the one that hit Jamaica not so long ago, or have floods that kill hundreds like in the Philippines, or experience winters with weeks of extreme cold and feet of snow lying for months...

I will take "a bit rubbish" over "actively dangerous" any day of the week.

November and December are my least favourite months for this reason. I hate driving in the dark but there is no choice right now. I like Jan as it’s the start of the lighter nights,
although I don’t like driving in icy
conditions either!

In 12 days time. Sunday 21st at 3.03pm!! I will have a celebratory cup of tea.

Today is awful but yesterday was 12 degrees and bright.
I hate the days that never seem to get light but I do feel like we've had more bright days than usual this year.

Do you get chance to get outside on the bright days?

You're not the only one. It's miserable. Yesterday I thought we're not far from the shortest day of the year and that it will start to get lighter next month. That cheers me up a little.

The amount of climate change already means the uk will be 10% wetter - and greyer