So sick of the constant rain…

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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?

Pissing down again last night, roads are flooded, mud everywhere, grey skies and everything smells damp. Anyone who enjoys this is a sadist IMO.

Has anyone else noticed how much more windy it's become over the past few years too?? We all know the climate is changing - it has to or we would still be in an Ice Age - but it is being accelerated by humans. However most humans don't really want to stop being so mobile - just look at the number of planes in the sky at any time over USA, China, India etc - and the number of cars doing short journeys in built up areas ( under 2 miles) in places like the UK.

Pissing it down in Brisbane too with flood warnings.

It honestly scares the hell out of me. In my RL world everyone avoids talking about the climate crisis and be assured, it is a crisis. It's totally weird and does my head in tbh

Yeah- I consider myself pretty stoic and I will run in wind and rain np but it's the mud- even with mud claw type shoes and waterproof socks a lot of trails are just not runnable. My friend slipped and fell into an electric fence. I've got a trail race next weekend and I never thought I'd be considering mud claws inn April!!

Is that unusual for this time of year? Australia has such extremes of heat and flooding now 😟

I agree re the rain = water in years to come but too much rain can be very damaging. We need proper ways of storing it and exporting it to the places that will really need it, trouble is water is obviously very heavy.

Yeah, wait til the growing middle classes in the likes of China, India, Nigeria etc start wanting to travel the world and buy white goods and SUVs. I'm not sure smug Westerners have any right to deny them the lifestyle that we have enjoyed for the past 70 years.

When people talk about responses to climate change and say "We need to use less energy and we need to fly less" what they really mean is "You need to use less energy and you need to fly less"

I have friends that pearl clutch over climate change yet they have carbon footprints that would scare a daredevil. But but but they say, "I've cut down on long haul flights!" then you have a look under their coffee table and there's photo albums from holidays all over the world. Get in the bin.

It's been so miserable. I hate it. It makes me feel so, so down.

And brace yourselves for Storm Kathleen, due any day now. Looks rough.

I’m still absolutely fed up with it but a slight positive is that I’m enjoying dog walks I don’t normally do because they are too muddy because even a basic walk results in a load of dog and clothes washing so might as well enjoy the scenic routes!

It’s very worrying. Australia used to always have occasional extreme weather events, but friends and family tell me that now it’s constant. Where my parents live they have also had constant rain but there are concerns about a long drought in the future.

Absolutely pissing down (again) in the North east! Walks are a nightmare as everywhere is just a giant bog, just want a bit of sunshine 🙏 😭

Horrible weather again...

Wind, wind, wind (and rain).