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What day of rain are you on?

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Playingvideogames · 18/02/2026 16:48

I think we’re at 42 now. It hasn’t missed a day since the first week of January. I feel like I’m stuck in the set of Wuthering Heights despite living in the West Country. I have 2 small kids and a lively dog.

This is DIRE!!!!!!!!

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Crwysmam · 18/02/2026 22:25

I took a photo of the sun the other day when it made a brief appearance. It has been so long since I’ve seen it I needed a reminder. It was only out for a couple of hours before the rain resumed.
We live in Worcestershire so have webbed feet. The ground is so saturated the road struggle to drain so there have been large puddles on the roads for weeks. Pot holes are becoming a huge hazard and there are a number of closed roads due to subsidence.

I have a very small leak in the roof which needs addressing and one of the down pipes on the guttering is blocked because of the amount of moss that has washed into it from the roof. It’s never been a problem before but I’m going to have to wait until my son returns from uni to sort it out because I’m not allowed up ladders.

StedSarandos · 18/02/2026 21:35

Day eleventy billion. Hampshire.

My tumble dryer had been almost neglected since my dc's left the pre-school years. I think it's had more use in the last two months than it had in the previous decade.

Chickenhorse · 18/02/2026 21:25

genesis92 · 18/02/2026 21:16

Also South West. I’ve come to accept that this is just life for us now. Please wish us well

South west too, and it has rained here every day this year. It rained so much two weeks ago that a town locally had lots of houses flooded. It was apparently the highest the river had ever been, and this town regularly floods. Most of the roads were closed or diverted and some youngsters from the local farm shop went to work by canoe. It took me two hours to do my 20 minute commute.

I think all the plants in my garden have drowned.

genesis92 · 18/02/2026 21:16

Also South West. I’ve come to accept that this is just life for us now. Please wish us well

whirlyhead · 18/02/2026 21:09

No rain for about 3 weeks after a miserable December and January. Hoorah!

Laiste · 18/02/2026 21:03

8 million and it's bucketing down horizontally out there again right now with threats of sleet and snow by morning 😫

Crikeyalmighty · 18/02/2026 21:00

Pianoaholic · 18/02/2026 20:55

I think it was, unless I imagined it through wishful thinking!
Back to heavy rain today, as I'm sure you're aware!

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oh yes - I’m so fed up of wearing my long black sack like hooded waterproof!!

Pianoaholic · 18/02/2026 20:55

Crikeyalmighty · 18/02/2026 19:28

Was it actually dry yesterday ? It’s been so wet here i think my brain is sodden!

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I think it was, unless I imagined it through wishful thinking!
Back to heavy rain today, as I'm sure you're aware!

CosyDenimShark · 18/02/2026 19:58

Also in the SW, I have spent a ridiculous amount of time looking for holidays and extreme day trips abroad. The rain is so depressing.

maddiemookins16mum · 18/02/2026 19:51

I got all my bedding out to dry yesterday (Kent).

LVhandbagsatdawn · 18/02/2026 19:44

dottiedodah · 18/02/2026 19:38

A rare event happened Saturday here .I needed to pinch myself! Yup a sunny day! Went to a NT house nearby utterly rammed! Couldnt even get a drink.Back to normality today poured all Sunday and today /yesterday .Just how much can there be? Feels impossible only last Summer worried about Drought!

Our groundwater levels have on average been very low for the past few years following lots of extended hot periods and dry winters.

This is why so many hosepipe bans came into effect so quickly even after rainier periods.

Right now is the first time I've seen the local reservoir full probably since COVID.

As much as I wish this rain had been rather more spread out(!), it has at least replenished our groundwater levels which are now normal (or above normal).

SlipperyLizard · 18/02/2026 19:43

For once, up here in Manchester, it hasn’t really rained much (apart from on Monday), or certainly not so much that it is unusual. I take the dog out twice a day and so would definitely be feeling it if it was really bad!

Bitofashock · 18/02/2026 19:41

I actually bought a dry robe the other day because every other coat is now letting in water on dog walks as I don’t seem to be able to get them dry! I took a photo of the sky last week as there was some blue sky and I was so shocked to see it.

muddyford · 18/02/2026 19:38

And the hosepipe ban will begin two days after it stops. If it ever does.

dottiedodah · 18/02/2026 19:38

LVhandbagsatdawn · 18/02/2026 19:36

At the moment just the one. It was dry yesterday, Monday, and Saturday.

There's still standing water in the garden though...

Yogabearmous · 18/02/2026 19:36

Had two hours no rain yesterday, hose pipe ban starts next week… 😂

Hereforthecommentz · 18/02/2026 19:36

Not sure but I'm in the middle of building an ark

muddyford · 18/02/2026 19:35

DH was in hospital from the second week in November and it rained every day I visited and every day since, bar two. Southwest here.

Crikeyalmighty · 18/02/2026 19:28

Pianoaholic · 18/02/2026 18:57

Southwest (Bath) here. We had a dry day Saturday and one yesterday but other than that, rain every day I think.
My cat is hardly venturing out, he's lazy anyway though!

Was it actually dry yesterday ? It’s been so wet here i think my brain is sodden!

RS1987 · 18/02/2026 19:26

It didn’t rain yesterday - that was the first and only day in 2026 so far.

MiddleAgedDread · 18/02/2026 19:24

It’s not rained here for 2 days!! It’s not always worse up north ;)

Sweetiedarling7 · 18/02/2026 19:13

It actually makes me glad I don’t have horses anymore.
To all those poor souls who do have horses to look after, I feel your pain.
Biblical rain here in the New Forest since christ knows when with frightening floods in Brockenhurst.

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 18/02/2026 19:12

If I was with Jacob Elordi I wouldn’t mind the rain! Sadly that’s not to be, so I’ve come to Gran Canaria with the kids for half term 😁

eosmum · 18/02/2026 19:06

47 long miserable cold wet days😭

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