Are you also thoroughly fed up with this never ending dismal, miserable November weather ?

[TheTecknician]

I don't suppose it's just me but I'm going to rant about it anyway. The poor weather is one reason I cannot stand November. In West Yorkshire, it seems that every morning I wake up to low cloud, dark skies drizzle and rain. Apart from yesterday when it was dry and we had some morning sunshine; it clouded over early afternoon! It's soul destroying. Back to the rain this morning. Oh, the joys.

The other main reason November can do one for me is Black Friday. Go away! I don't care about discounts on goods I'd never have bought in the first place. Sod off back over the Atlantic where you came from and don't come back.

I swear I shall develop murderous intentions if Thanksgiving should ever dare to show its face in this country.

I'm fighting off one of these nasty viruses that's sweeping the country just now, so I am far less tolerant of November crap than usual. But I maintain that November is pointless and should be eradicated. I'm sorry if this affects you negatively.

Roll on spring!

I hate black Friday too! Just sell it cheaper all the time, stop ripping people off.
The weather doesn’t bother me too much, less people dog walking when it’s raining!

Yes - I'm in W Yorks too. It's horrible, and follows a crap summer.

We have had relentless rain and wind for weeks. We’ve had and have still got, flooding, we’ve been on the national news, roads are closed and everyone trying to find a route out of the village means any open road is rammed. I can’t remember it ever being as bad as this and I’m utterly, utterly sick of it.

Yep. Am absolutely sick of it, and this is even with a bit of sun for half term overseas. I think that’s actually made it worse.

October/ November feel like they have been so much darker and damper than normal. I'm in London. I usually spend a lot of time outdoors and in the park with my toddler but it's been too grim to play outdoors a lot of the time. I feel awful about how much TV he has watched...

I am going against the grain here, so I'm sorry.

I just take every day as it comes. It is Winter and in our climate we can't expect anything better than rain, cold, wind and dark nights. I adapt and get up extra early on weekends to do stuff and largely hibernate during the week nights bar the essentials. Actually the grim weather and darkness is an excuse to do very little which is magic for lazy people like me.....

I know I sound like a smug git. But resistance is futile!

Definitely. Ive felt really low and demotivated, especially since the clock change. I started getting leg pains and went back on vitamin D which has helped a bit but basically I need summer. We never had one this year and it's really affected me.

I absolutely hate it. I think it's rained every day here for a month.

I've also had Covid for a month so not feeling in the best of moods anyway but the weather is so depressing.

I run holiday cottages and I feel so sorry for my guests who have to put up with it.

It makes me depressed

Not because it's wet again but because it's mounting evidence that we have fucked yo the planet - mild wetter winters is all we have to look forward to

Be interested to see how many more storms we get this winter also

Yes, it's awful. Looking out the window it's raining steadily and tomorrow we are getting strong winds, so another lovely weekend.

Yesterday was really nice, sunnyish, very calm and I managed to plant up a lot of my tulips into pots, I guess they are definitely getting a good watering today which is something. 🙄

Nothing lasts forever, even cold November rain.

So I'm told.

@ladeluge The thing is though, it isn't winter yet! It's that lousy indistinct period where the weather can't make up its mind what it wants to be. I'm no fan of winter either but it brings a glimmer of hope for snow on the ground, bright blue skies and winter sunshine. Albeit chilly but preferable to what we've got now. I never considered the flooding risk but I concede that must be a continuing source of aggro for many.

We’ve had a lot of rain here, but alternated with spectacularly beautiful blue-skies, golden-leaved days of the kind that make my soul soar. I absolutely love this time of year - I love the darker evenings and lighting the fire, I love wrapping up to get out for walks, making comforting casseroles and cakes, watching the leaves fall, the sunlight through the clouds, the approach of December and everything that comes with it… we’ve had a slightly relentless run of germs this year but it’s still far and away my favourite month. Sorry!

And then there's Children in Need. I'll probably lose a lot of people here but hasn't it had its day?

I don’t mind the rain. Going to go for a soggy walk in the woods later. I actually think November is a lovely month with the red and yellow of the autumn leaves and the cosy feeling of the nights drawing in.

i also dislike Black Friday though. What’s the point unless you have the whole tradition of Thanksgiving with it?

Sometimes I find this dark, quiet, misty weather gentle and relaxing. The end of summer can feel exhausting. Cosyness, lie-ins, reading in bed … As someone said a nice excuse for lazy living! Autumn can also have brilliantly sunny days too, they almost seem brighter than summer. I like the mix. (Mind you I do live in the South, slightly more sun and less rain usually).

The relentless fucking rain and storms can do one!

I like Black Friday. We buy DDs Christmas present every year from a specific online shop that offers three different matchy-matchy colour ranges on Black Friday (horsey stuff) so DDs present for the last 3 years has been a set in whatever colour I think she would prefer. This is a genuine Black Friday offering as there is between 30-50% off the ranges they offer as their BF deal.

indeed I logged into my account this morning for the first time since BF last year to see which colour sets they were offering this year.

But the rain can do one.

November is the shittiest month. It's neverending dull, grey, wet, getting rapidly darker and darker. Hate it.

But we are less than 5 weeks to the solstice when things will start getting lighter again.

Weather doesn't bother or affect me much so, no, I am not fed up with it. It's nice and cosy indoors which is all I care about.

The weather is not a problem - it is autumn after all!

The weather is also making me very nervous about driving this winter. I work 24/7 shift pattern and have to do a lot of driving in the dark/twilight along very badly maintained, unlit roads that are full of massive potholes. Many of the ones they patched are opening up again due to all this rain and bad weather.

we put a new set of wheels on my car on Monday; on Wednesday I hit a pothole at 5am which was really deep, full of water and invisible. Split the wheel which had done less than 100 miles. I would never ever get alloy, low profile wheels ever again.

I was just saying to my other half it's a good job I don't mind the rain cos sometimes it goes two weeks and I haven't been outside.

This week I left the house on Thursday to drive two hours have a meeting and come back. I'm 54 and feel like I am just waiting to die ( from old age) not self inflicted. I have just asked him to get my SAD light from loft, I think I'm a bit down, thanks for the thread as I might not have noticed until things were much worse.

Yep. This weather is awful! Very depressing just rain all freakin day. Every day.
I do love Black Friday this year though! But we’re doing a big renovation so buying big things like dishwashers and carpets so BIG savings! Also buying xmas pressies in the sales. Of course I wish it were all just a better price all the time, but unfortunately that’s not going to happen. Trying to ensure I don’t buy anything I don’t actually need though!