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Getting rage about this effing weather

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MagdelenaMorrison · 10/06/2026 17:16

I am so angry.
Typing this with yet another torrential rain downpour as we speak. Left my back door open when it was dry clear sky weather and went upstairs to put laundry away, came back down to a black sky, monsoon downpour and a flooded kitchen floor from the rain being blown into my kitchen by howling wind. This is the 4th torrential downpour of the day. All 4 monsoon like.
So far in the SE we have had 10 days straight of torrential rain and battering winds, except for a light reprieve on Sunday but even that was bloody freezing cold. Over the past week I've watched the ferocious hurricane like winds blast all my different roses in full bloom off of their stems, it's snapped all my foxgloves in half, snapped branches off my Budleia, snapped all the stems off of my Salvias, tore my 2 hanging baskets off my wall and landed them across my garden, ruined. I've had my wheelie bins blown from my driveway down the street on their sides, crashing into neighbours' cars. One of our big heavy roof tiles got ripped off by gale force winds on Saturday and landed on our drive and smashed to smithereens, thank God none of us were standing on the drive at the time. I can't hang any washing out cos it won't stop raining.
I put all our coats away during the brief mini heatwave in half term and now we're all wearing them again.
I hate, hate, hate this weather. 10 days of it in June!!!!! Summer!!!!
Just looked at the forecast for tomorrow and it's rain all day again.
I can't cope, it's making me really miserable. Our summers are already short enough as it is, without this.
We didn't even have a warm May (except for the 1 week of half term). 😤

OP posts:
HoraceCope · 12/06/2026 06:23

surely it is mid summer on 21st June

MagdelenaMorrison · 12/06/2026 06:14

CoffeeAndCats3 · 12/06/2026 00:09

Its only 70 miles away.

May was classified as 'exceptionally warm across the UK' according to the met office.

I looked up rainfall stats for Eastbourne. April had almost no rain. May had below normal levels.

So not dissimilar to London stats as outlined above.

Here's a link so you can educate yourself:

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/blog/2026/may-2026-weather-stats-a-regional-breakdown

Edited

"Here's a link so you can educate yourself:"
You may not have meant to sound rude, but this did come across as a bit rude towards ScrambledTofu.

OP posts:
DontBuyAnotherBook · 12/06/2026 06:13

If it weren't for the jet stream we would be a hell of a lot more cold.

Nsky62 · 12/06/2026 00:29

topcat2014 · 10/06/2026 17:18

If it makes you feel better we're on our summer holiday in Wales

Madness

ScrambledTofuNeedsKalaNamak · 12/06/2026 00:23

Also @CoffeeAndCats3 how rude are you?

Here's a link so you can educate yourself:

Shall we wait for the June stats to come out before we start accusing people of being less educated than yourself?

ScrambledTofuNeedsKalaNamak · 12/06/2026 00:12

I'm only 70 miles away from Blackpool, but we have significantly different weather. Eastbourne is also coastal.

Do you compare snowfall in London to say the Shetlands?

The OP is not being unreasonable at all. She lives in Eastbourne and has suffered horrible weather that has destroyed her garden and damaged her house.

CoffeeAndCats3 · 12/06/2026 00:09

ScrambledTofuNeedsKalaNamak · 11/06/2026 23:49

The OP lives in Eastbourne, the stats that you looked at are irrelevant.

Its only 70 miles away.

May was classified as 'exceptionally warm across the UK' according to the met office.

I looked up rainfall stats for Eastbourne. April had almost no rain. May had below normal levels.

So not dissimilar to London stats as outlined above.

Here's a link so you can educate yourself:

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/blog/2026/may-2026-weather-stats-a-regional-breakdown

ScrambledTofuNeedsKalaNamak · 11/06/2026 23:49

CoffeeAndCats3 · 11/06/2026 23:38

YABU.

I looked at the stats for London. April and May had less than 20% of normal rainfall. May was also much hotter (2.7 degrees) than normal.

So cooler/rainier weather is much needed.

Edited

The OP lives in Eastbourne, the stats that you looked at are irrelevant.

CoffeeAndCats3 · 11/06/2026 23:38

YABU.

I looked at the stats for London. April and May had less than 20% of normal rainfall. May was also much hotter (2.7 degrees) than normal.

So cooler/rainier weather is much needed.

ScrambledTofuNeedsKalaNamak · 11/06/2026 23:26

dannyufcfan · 11/06/2026 23:00

Well, i hope the people who cry when it's hot for two days have been loving this weather.

I promised I wouldn't moan about the heat this summer, especially after the extremely long, wet and grey winter we had.

When we had that heat for a week at the end of May I kept my promise. Internally I was a bit like wtf, because it literally went from 14c to 29c in a matter of days 🤣, but I didn't vocally moan. When it cooled down I was relieved a little, but bring it bloody back!

It's been a wet, dreary, grey day today where I am in West Yorks with temps hovering around 13c. I could've sworn I'd slept through summer and woken up in November.

dannyufcfan · 11/06/2026 23:00

Well, i hope the people who cry when it's hot for two days have been loving this weather.

GentleSheep · 11/06/2026 22:59

June Monsoon.

MagdelenaMorrison · 11/06/2026 22:57

Another shitting day of driving rain and howling winds.
Fucks sake.
I surrendered today and put the heating on. It's been on all day long. It was making me feel ill being freezing cold indoors for nearly 2 weeks. I've still had my winter chunky jumper on even with the heating on. I'm laying in bed as we speak and can hear the wind howling through the window. I'm in bloody Eastbourne for gods sake, not Moscow.
The surveyor from my insurance company visited today to see the damage the hurricane did by ripping off my roof tile on Saturday. Guess what, the insurance company won't pay out for the damage. So now I'm even more pissed off.

OP posts:
countrylife00 · 11/06/2026 18:25

I bought some gorgeous Summer clothes. Most are yet to be worn. In a couple of months all the Winter clothes will be in the shops. It is indeed all rather depressing.

AInightingale · 11/06/2026 17:44

I was trying to spread butter on my son's toast this morning and it was really hard, despite sitting out in a butter dish all night. One that normally spreads easily at room temperature unless it's winter.

TigerRag · 11/06/2026 17:37

WhatcakeshalIbaketoday · 11/06/2026 17:35

Hold your horses people, summer officially begins 21st June. Yes I know what the weather forecasters say the date is.

We'll just have warmer rain!

I'm fed up of it too - I'm away for a few days. Instead of packing a sun hat I've packed a woolly hat and cold weather gear

WhatcakeshalIbaketoday · 11/06/2026 17:35

Hold your horses people, summer officially begins 21st June. Yes I know what the weather forecasters say the date is.

RaininSummer · 11/06/2026 17:13

Yep been freezing at work as the bloody air con has been blowing cold air over me all day. Now home under heated blanket with central heating on to raise the temperature to about 19 degrees and finish some damp washing which didn't dry yesterday. Hope it's not going to be like this all summer like it was a few years ago.

BogRollBOGOF · 11/06/2026 16:31

It's nice weather... for November.

I've just come home and stuck the heating on. The calendar says it's not central heating season at work so it's been chilly all week despite still being in my winter workwear.

We had a bright spell yesterday evening and I was astonished when it was still light-ish towards 10pm. The last couple of weeks have been so overcast that I've had lamps on from 8pm as it's become too dull.

PauliesWalnuts · 11/06/2026 16:13

whirlyhead · 11/06/2026 15:33

I am in Spain. Can we have some of your rain please?

You need to go where the plain is - that’s where the rain mainly stays. ☺️

Hotafternoon · 11/06/2026 16:02

I'm trapped indoors and there are builders next door, hammering, drilling, grinding, it's been all day. 🙄😡

If today had been sunny, warm and not too breezy I would have gone down to the beach hut with my book.

I have months of this ahead of me, it's a big extension. 😥

Livpool · 11/06/2026 15:58

I feel the same OP - it is making me depressed and my asthma is horrendous due to the damp and rain.

MidnightMeltdown · 11/06/2026 15:53

Sorry, summer has been cancelled this year ☹️

HotWheel5 · 11/06/2026 15:44

Chinesedave · 10/06/2026 20:32

It is shit because whilst we are never ever assured lovely weather in the spring and summer (and by lovely I just mean warm and settled, not hot), we are ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEED shitty weather (cold, wet and windy) in some form from October - April/May (and June apparently) 😭😭😭

Those saying they enjoy this shit are clearly not gardeners as whilst we need some rain occasionally, the wind, rain and hail has just destroyed most of the things I've been looking forward to since last year 😢😢

Totally agree. I don’t want it to be hot, but I wish May - August was a more guaranteed settled, 19-22 degrees with only light rain. I feel we ‘deserve’ it after the 7-8 months of late autumn/winter/early spring!

Falafelouisa · 11/06/2026 15:37

JacknDiane · 11/06/2026 15:34

Its always nice up there

Ermmm it’s nice right enough but not always in weather terms!

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