When will the rain stop?

[fisherking1]

I think we need a new thread everyday on the relentlessness of the rain until we get two dry days, in a row( sorry about the length of the sentence).

I thought similar earlier, I'm so used to get dingy days that my eyes were like woah it's like you've had laser surgery or got glasses and can now see properly!

@fisherking1 Yes! I get that, my eyes and whole self felt like I was transported to another world today! Sunshine all day until 4pm, went inside from work and thought illl go for a walk now, looked out the window and it wa agree and peeing it down AGAIN! It lasted all of half a day! It was abs lovely too and it all in work! 😭

One place I've noticed that seems so dry and sunny all yr is the canaries! We've caved and booked feurtevenrura to go end of the mth I can't take it anymore!!! Hopefully when we get bk spring will finally kick in!

Guys we have sunshine this morning in the midlands!!!!! I wonder tho how long it'll last I hope it'll be least a few more hours! 🙌

Been sunny last few days here (London). Nice for the last weekend before schools go back, and I finally managed to cut the grass. Cooler and cloudy forecast for the coming week though.

Anyone thinking of emigrating, I recommend Perth, Australia. I left Ireland in 2013 because it hadn't stopped raining for what felt like forever. The weather here is wonderful, I went to the beach for a swim today even though its mid-Autumn, I had SAD when I lived in Ireland, so I can confirm the mental health benefits of living in a sunny place are incredible. I'm really not wanting to rub it in, I know it's not an option for everyone, but if it is an option for you, and the weather bothers you that much ( I know some people don't mind it), I really recommend moving to sunnier climes, I've never regretted it.

@alwayscrashinginthesamecar1 Thank you for you're reply it's great to hear this and on where is good too! Does Perth have any less giant spiders at all?? I'm trying to get my head around this and doing other research, I think from what I read the nhs system there is the same as here in England, you can get private health insurance if you want to but you don't have to. It's appealing just need to do a lot more research etc x

@alwayscrashinginthesamecar1 out of interest do you get those really big huntsman spiders in Perth or is it the smaller ones? It's the size that bothers me more than anything else! 😭

Totally sick of it. This morning was lovely. Blue skies. Sunshine. A bit windy but I was working up a sweat in my big coat. I had just taken it off and was having a lovely relaxing walk with the dog. Suddenly grey clouds out of nowhere, and it started lashing down. We were soaked by the time we ran back to the car.

The washing that I had hung out before leaving also drenched.

Can't we have just one day without a downpour? 😭 NE Scotland.

Well with your name you're near me & I don't think we've had two dry days - let alone in a row - since November 😉

I'm also fed up. It was lovely Tuesday morning. By the time I 'd got half the washing on the line it was pissing it down again. And to quantify the amount of rain we've had - I have a trug that will hold a gallon of water. It sits in the garden as a spare water butt in case of dry weather and is so rarely needed I often wonder why I bother - I've had to empty it twice since October & it's currently full again. I'm considering getting an amphibious car, it's so bloody wet.

And I guarantee that some areas will have a hosepipe ban come July despite all the damn rain.

I've been in Perth ten years and have only seen a couple of really big spiders, both times out in the countryside. Its actually the smaller ones that are more bitey, you do need to watch out for redbacks in the garage or hiding under the garden furniture. My husband has been bitten once, me never, it didn't do him any harm. As for snakes I've seen a few (maybe three or four?) , but they don't bother you, they are more scared of you (mostly). They really are nothing to worry about, no-one has died by spider bite since 1979, snake deaths also very rare. I am no spider fan, but its really not a big problem. You can always get your house sprayed regularly if you want to be really sure there are no nasties lurking.

As for the health service, there is a mixture of public and private and in my opinion the service is much better than the UK. I was unwell on Saturday morning and got an appointment with my GP for lunch time that day. If you can find a doctor that bulk bills they are free, I have one nearby but prefer to go to another doctor who charges $70 for an appointment but I get about $40 of that rebated instantly from Medicare before I even leave the surgery. I also pay $90 a month which pays for three of us to get two pairs of glasses a year and a certain amount of dental work , plus ambulance cover. As we all wear glasses this more than pays for itself. Last year my son had to have four wisdom teeth out and it covered all but $500 of his $2500 bill. You can also pay more and get hospital cover if you want it, just like Bupa in the UK. My husband had a work accident a few months ago so was sent to a private hospital for surgery, it was incredible (a thirty page menu of on-demand room service!) so I am thinking of upgrading! But really there is no need, the public service is pretty good too. Don't get me wrong, it is by no means perfect, but having had experience of both UK and Aussie systems (also Irish) I prefer the system here.

It’s definitely been drier here ( coastal Dorset) this week. We’ve had 4 dry days in a row!! Bit of rain forecast today but then supposed to be dry for rest of the week. I dragged the family out for a long walk and lunch in a pub garden yesterday in case that’s it for summer 🤣. Did a trail race this weekend and although there were still some really bad bits ( that thick ankle sucking mud) you could see that a lot of it had been like that and was starting to dry out. So there is hope and I intend to cling to it!!

Omg we've just had the strangest thing happen here this morning in the midlands! We've all just been woke with the heaviest rain I think I've ever heard in my life first thing of a morning but then just a huge crack of thunder went off!!! Wth! It's 6c degrees! It's rumbling still! That is a first! Never heard that before HOW STRANGE!!! 😳😳😳

Just when you think it can't get any worse!!! There's big storm due all day today apparently!

I did wonder if the MN ‘no such thing as bad weather’ would have agreed if they’d seen the hailstones and lightning this morning brought!

You must be near me. We had a little bit of rain this weekend but the sun actually came out and it finally felt like things were warming up. But then this morning at around 4am the heavens opened and it's not stopped raining since. There are going to be a lot of soggy people on the school run this morning. 😔

Fuck this weather!!! Honestly April showers my arse! 7.30 on a Monday morning and despite my big winter coat and only an 8 minute walk to my destination I'm beyond soaked and likely to remain that way all bloody day. The rain can piss right off!!!

We've had a sunny weekend, ( and breezy, good drying day), but there has still been showers.

Showers again now. It's been worse.

I'm so fed up with the grey skies too.

Well both days on the weekend were lovely but still had rain later in the day
its like the weather has forgotten how not to rain
absolutely pissing down here and blowing a hooley this morning ooh I can't wait for my walk to work whoop bloody whoop

We dodged rain on a long dog walk yesterday, the rivers are all full and in spate….had to keep dog on lead a lot as where there’s normally a beach for her to leap onto there was just full river.

the garden is desperate as too muddy to weed. Hardly sat in the garden at all and everything feels slimy.

im fed up.

Hammering down with rain here in Gloucestershire, really windy too. So depressing after such a nice weekend 😩

We had two dry days but now it's absolutely hammering down and windy too 😭
Definitely been raining almost every day since before October here (Lincolnshire).

Haven't been able to walk the dog across a field for what feels like forever (poor sod he remembers where they are and pulls towards them but they are waterlogged and boggy).

The weeds seem to be enjoying it though, and the slugs and snails which were dying out in the heatwaves seem to be prolific again. Maybe that's what we'll all end up eating seeing as the farmers' fields are so waterlogged growing food would seem nigh on impossible.

A drastic response to this awful depressing disabling,
no respite, limiting, makework, skinsoaked weather -
My daughter & family,
child in year 6, ideal timing,
have sold their house in leafy SE London,
currently packing up, awaiting completion,
moving permanently to the Caribbean.

This has been mooted for a few years now,
for when gd is 18, at University, always ‘in the future’
Well the future is now.
No more rain, they have reached saturation level.

For them, what a marvellous opportunity,
even in the short but essential rainy season,
the weather will still be warm,
life is so much easier, glorious sunshiney days.

This rain cannot last much longer, can it?
our land is already crumbling at the edges

Driving wind and rain for months, when will it end.

We are experiencing this as I write, heavy, angry rain
lashing against the windows, children soaked through
first day back to school, awful.