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So sick of the constant rain…

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Notcontent · 31/12/2023 00:39

There is torrential rain outside right now where I am (London). It sounds like a hurricane. But in general it feels like it has been a really grey and rainy winter - worse than usual…. Am I just imagining it or has it been really wet and miserable?

OP posts:
caramac04 · 02/01/2024 15:40

It really is miserable but here in the midlands it hasn’t been so bad. Well not when compared to other parts of Britain.
As a dog owner I am sick of muddy walks but apparently this Summer is likely to be the hottest on record so no doubt I’ll be begging for rain.
I bought a load of biennial plants but haven’t got them in the ground. Some have rotted off despite being under the garden table. No doubt they would have rotted off in the sodden soil.

ThatSoddingCat · 02/01/2024 15:41

It's horrible and dark, and the rain has been almost nonstop. (East Midlands)

I feel sorry for people who have had their homes flooded.

Cozytoesandtoast00 · 02/01/2024 15:44

I quite like the heavy rain!
I went for a walk in it this morning with the dog and came back soaking.
I love the cosy feel of coming home, with the rain lashing against the windows.

EdithStourton · 02/01/2024 15:52

It's been grim where I am (East). A farmer I know was delighted to get his fields drilled by November. He know thinks that some of the seed will have rotted in the ground and that he'll have to drill again once it's dry enough.

TonTonMacoute · 02/01/2024 15:58

I'm in Cornwall, god knows we're used to the rain down here but these last few months have been the worst I remember for a long while. My garden just squelches when I go out in it, and I had to plant all my spring bulbs in containers.

We have had so many storms too, with really strong winds. I am utterly fed up with it.

Dragonbed · 02/01/2024 16:14

Hasn’t stopped raining all day here. I haven’t ventured out but the roads were starting to flood last night so I imagine they will be bad by now.
Grateful to get a quick walk in the sun yesterday morning and the forecast for the next week looks better

Whinge · 02/01/2024 16:18

It's been another day of constant torrential rain. We were unlucky enough be flooded at the end of last year and all our neighours are on edge that it's going to happen again. 😔

BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 02/01/2024 16:22

We're getting a lot of storms this year, we're already on to H (Henk) and the season only started on 1st September. They seem to be following each other with barely a gap at the moment.

frostyfingers · 02/01/2024 16:23

It's awful - I'm not a farmer and my livelihood does not depend on the weather as such, but I do have animals and the fields are completely sodden, the grass is gone and it's mostly mud. Every time I go out to see to them it's a miserable slog and the the house is permanently full of drying coats and wellies. Ugh!

cardibach · 02/01/2024 16:28

Where have all the ‘autumn/winter is marvellous with the crisp autumn days/bright frosty mornings’ people gone? They banged on about how fabulous it is for ages and wouldn’t listen to reality. We get damp and grey here. It’s wetter than usual right enough, but crisp and frosty are not regular parts of our seasons.

Raspberrymoon49 · 02/01/2024 16:29

It’s relentless, we’ve had gale force winds in SE today, feels like winter has already been raging for 6 months

UseOfWeapons · 02/01/2024 16:37

Torrential rain and high winds in the East atm. I'm a bit scared about walking home, to be honest! Ground is waterlogged already, and flooding locally.

Ihateslugs · 02/01/2024 16:50

SalmonWellington · 31/12/2023 09:41

Climate change. Hotter summers, warmer and wetter winters

Unfortunately not all areas benefit from hotter summers! Certainly the last summer here in the NW England was not very warm, we only had a few hot days compared to the SE.

TeenLifeMum · 02/01/2024 16:53

Today I told the children we were putting on waterproof coats and wellies and walking the dog together whatever the weather. I was so fed up of just taking the dog out on pavements for minimal walks (he wasn’t keen on going out either). We just got back from a very muddy walk - dog’s had a bath and washing machine is on. But, everyone enjoyed it (12-15 year olds so not an easy audience). But yes, the rain is 😩

aramox1 · 02/01/2024 17:05

This is what it's going to be more and more like. And my roof is leaking, again.

Supersimkin2 · 02/01/2024 17:07

My lovely terrace garden is mouldy.

Inner London here - this flat grey sky puts the tin lid on merriment. Walks are glum.

Excitingly, however, I was nearly blown over in Balham after lunch.

LardyCakeAgain · 02/01/2024 17:15

I've found my people... the weather today is just horrendous. We have reinforcement on our fences for security reasons and it's the only thing which is keeping the panels in. Our houses have been in this area for 100+ years, no new builds, but the street has started to flash flood in winter because of the volume of rain we're getting over & over again. The street drains have been overflowing since beginning of Dec & we're getting damp patches on the inside of our walls, which are solid brick. It's relentless.

DrCoconut · 02/01/2024 17:16

Horrible. And almost another week of school holidays to go with everyone shut in driving each other nuts due to the weather (DS2 is too big for soft play etc now). Who on earth thought putting a sizeable part of the Christmas holiday in January was a good plan?

ForTonightGodisaDJ · 02/01/2024 17:37

Try living nowhere near London with the same amount of torrential rain! You live in London, rejoice!

ThePoshUns · 02/01/2024 19:51

cardibach · 02/01/2024 16:28

Where have all the ‘autumn/winter is marvellous with the crisp autumn days/bright frosty mornings’ people gone? They banged on about how fabulous it is for ages and wouldn’t listen to reality. We get damp and grey here. It’s wetter than usual right enough, but crisp and frosty are not regular parts of our seasons.

lol! Hopefully enjoying snuggling in doors under a fluffy blanket with a hot chocolate! They're welcome to it. I am going stir crazy.

Mollyplop999 · 02/01/2024 20:12

I've got 3 ponies and this has been the wettest winter i can remember in 30 years. My hips and knees are hammered due to the deep mud and trying to stay upright. I just about get my stuff dried out from the morning when it's time to go back and do it all again. I feel so so sorry for farmers.

TheThingIsYeah · 04/01/2024 20:52

Will it ever stop chucking it down?! (I live in the Kingdom of Essex). Even days when you wake up and the sun is shining you think, ok, today will be good. But no, come the afternoon the pissing rain starts again. As it's doing right now...4 hours non-stop so far.

the80sweregreat · 04/01/2024 20:53

Kingdom of Essex! Lol
Me too
It's been throwing it down this afternoon
I do like rain , but for January it feels unnatural
Global warning I suppose ?

feellikeanalien · 04/01/2024 20:59

I just know that every time I look at the Met office forecast for our area (rural Northumberland) it's going to to say 6 degrees and cloudy. Every single day for as long as I can remember. We were in Scotland for Christmas and on boxing the day the sun shone and there was blue sky. That's the first day I remember like that for ages. It was back to the usual the next day though.

Coincidentally · 05/01/2024 07:21

Horribly windy too but the weather forecast seems to have no more rain predicted in the South till 15th, but ghastly cold….