I am SO sick of this weather! Moan thread

[Harebell22]

Really I am done with it..where I am it has rained every day (bar literally two days) since the beginning of July plus it's been windy and cool and now the nights are getting darker earlier it just feels gloomy! And it's not even (just) August yet.
Feel so sorry for kids on the school holidays and parents trying to cope. It's just pants.

Alnwick gardens play park is supposed to be amazing. To be fair we've been in Northumberland the last three weekends and it's been dry if cool 🤞🏻

Last summer we intended to dig a pool this year, not happening! This weather honestly makes me want to emigrate

Surely no one actively enjoys a summer with nothing but day after day of rain? I mean I can sort of see some people preferring it not to be sunny but this? When it's relentless grey skies and persistent rain? It makes my soul sad and I absolutely hate it.

We spend so long in the cold damp gloom in this country and not having anything approaching a summer is miserable beyond belief.

Am thrilled that I do have a holiday to Mallorca to look forward to last week in August!

We're on holiday in Devon and it's wet and chilly. I keep trying to tell myself what a beautiful place it is, but in truth everywhere looks sad. All that's left to enjoy this week is indoor swimming pool and cinema.

Heading off to Cornwall in the morning for 2 weeks camping with 3 DC. Not going to lie I'm feeling miserable about it - forecast is rain and windy for the first 5 days straight, then a couple of days of 'not rain' (I daren't say it will be warm) and then more rain. It's going to cost me a fortune in pubs, indoor stuff, magazines etc to entertain them. We're well prepared with all the gear, but being damp for 2 weeks is not fun.

Gosh I'm so sorry for all of you who have businesses - outdoor cafe, gardeners etc - who are being impacted by the shit weather

NE Scotland here and today it has been utterly torrential rain all day. Three weeks of the summer holidays gone and only a couple of dry days 😕

We have just cut our week long camping holiday short in Eastbourne due to the horrendous weather. Never been beaten by weather before but I just couldn’t face another night of howling winds and rain. We had three tent poles snap and got sick of spending money sitting inside with the kids. So depressing. We drove five hours to get there. Arrived Saturday and managed two nights before my slight mental breakdown 😭just drove five hours back again with a soaking wet tent which needs to be dried out somehow

Also really sorry for you who are trying to holiday in this miserable weather 😕

It’s crap OP. I’m in Normandy (come home tomorrow) and it’s rained every day. Its torrential right now. We have managed to dodge the rain a bit (there was one day it didn’t rain at all so we had a beach day) but I brought maxi dresses that have stayed in my case. Currently torturing myself by looking at my friends holiday snaps who haven’t picked a holiday on the rainiest part of France. I was working during that lovely spell in June. Feel robbed of summer.

Oh god @Raspberrysins that is dire. My sympathies

It's my son's wedding on August bank holiday weekend, we are so hoping it picks up even a little by then. Just being dry would be enough

Absolutely - but still preferring it to the relentless heat of last year. Hay crops will be better, last year nothing grew.

I’m surprised you are wearing coats and hats - yes its wet, but it’s not cold. I’m wearing tea-shirts

It's hard to stay positive when there's no let up in the rain and the nights are noticeably drawing in. I am thankful not to be in 40 degrees, and I know the rain we have is linked to that and something to do with the jet stream, but really I've had enough now.

Me too, it’s so rubbish. I’m live in Calderdale where it’s so overcast and grey most of the winter and it’s just relentless at the moment with rain and wind. I don’t even like the hot weather but this is awful. The house opposite us has a fire lit 😳
we’re off camping to Norfolk on Saturday to where we went last year and it was a wonderful, shorts and T-shirts and full days on the beach and in the sea. This year it’s going to be 10 degrees colder and wet.
I have seen it might warm up in September so that’s something or it’ll be a depressing slog to winter.

Another gardener here without the enthusiasm for it. Everything is damp and soggy and I swear the slugs are a foot long and chuckling to themselves.

We had such a long winter right up to June with no nice spring this year - then two weeks and a wham bang thank you autumn. Ffs.

@Upsizer yes the slugs and snails are in their element. Also suddenly have an earwig problem - do they like the damp or is it because it’s my first year trying out dahlias.

I bought a tent a few weeks back, in a hope to go camping :-( So far it's only been put up in the living room !

I am however, sat next to my suitcase as me and my 2 kids are off to sunny Spain for a week tomorrow !

First solo holiday with them in 10yrs ! Anxious and excited in equal measures .....

I'll bring back some sunshine ☀️

Hay crops will be better, last year nothing grew.

No they won't. I was watching Look North earlier on this evening and the farmers are struggling with the relentless wet weather. Everything is too damp to turn into hay. The stuff they have cut is rotting in the fields. It is better than 40 degrees and fire, but not better than 23 degrees and sunshine interspersed with the odd rainy day.

The farmers in Yorkshire are not happy.

@BrightLightTonight

not everyone wants to do activities in the pissing rain

I would much rather have heatwave like last year. In fact fingers crossed we might get one in august 🤞

Getting my SAD lamp out in the morning two months earlier than usual !

Here is a list of things to do in Northumberland:

Towns
Alnwick, Amble, Berwick upon Tweed, Corbridge, Hexham, Morpeth, Rothbury, Warkworth

Castles
Alnwick Castle and gardens, Aydon Castle, Belsay, Bamburgh, Chillingham, Dunstanburgh, Lindisfarne, Warkworth

Stately homes
Cragside, Seaton Delaval, Wallington – all NT

Other Attractions
Brinkburn Priory, Coquet Island, Coquet Valley, Corbridge Roman Town, Farne Islands, Grace Darling museum, Hadrian's Wall - Chesters, Housesteads and Vindolanda, Ford and Etal, Hauxley nature reserve, Heatherslaw Light Railway, Holy Island, Howick gardens, Ingram Valley, Kielder, Warkworth Hermitage, Woodhorn museum

Beaches
Alnmouth, Bamburgh, Beadnell, Boulmer, Cocklawburn, Cresswell, Druridge Bay, Embleton, Holy Island, Low Newton, Longhoughton, Newbiggin, Seahouses, Seaton Sluice, Warkworth,

Children
Northumberland Country Zoo, Northumberlandia, Whitehouse farm centre

Places to eat
Ephesus, Morpeth
Nadon Thai, Morpeth
Tandoor Mahal, Morpeth
Lal Khazana, Shilbottle
The Cook and Barke Inn, Newton on the Moor
The Running Fox, Felton and Longframlington
The Village Inn, Longframlington

I bought a fire pit at the end of June. The next day the weather turned to shit and it's been sat in its box unused since then. Bah.

@RampantIvy and @sleepyscientist thank you so much

I suspect that posters who say just go out in the rain haven't had the torrential rain that we have had. Even in wet weather gear it is just not fun being out in it, especially if, like me, you wear glasses..

I'm fine walking about in gentle rain and drizzle, but that isn't what we are getting right now.