AIBU to be fucked off to fuck with this shitty weather

[nearlyuptheduff]

Can't get my washing dried, taking me twice as long to get home from work because of driving conditions, unable to do any gardening, lacking anything resembling a freckle beacuse the sun has just not been out AT ALL.

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I am so not a hot weather person and even I am finding it debilitating. And I feel terrible for farmers and others where it is destroying their livelihoods.

Roll on a hurricane in the mid Atlantic and get this weather system sorted!

Where do you live that you have sunny mornings? All we have is dismal rain all day, sometimes on and off but mainly on. I can't remember a day when it hasn't rained. Even when it stops I can feel it in the air.

Yes feel sorry for the farmers and sorry for the rest of us when food prices shoot up further. My tomatoes were sown in feb and only just set a few days ago. stuff is growing but it looks like I was expecting it to in may.

I do feel for the farmers, but would a hot summer and the bad drought we had have been better for them?

At 3.45 this afternoon my husband and I was leaving Cardiff in the dry to go on the M4, we hadn't been out more than five minutes when we had a cloud burst and as you couldn't see the car in front we decided to postpone the journey, thank goodness we hadn't got on the M4. Now we have put away our six free range rabbits during which we all got soaked it has brightened up and the sun is shining. I am not going out now as I am cooking a nice hot meal. We hadn't had a dry 24 hours since before the end of May. Our house rabbits who free range in the garden during the day keep scrabbling at the patio door to go out and then sulk when I won't let them out whilst it is raining, you can't even stick a DVD on for them like you can with young children !

YANBU. I run a weather dependent business and the last good summer we had was in 2006. Yes, Two thousand and fucking six! Takings are down a thrid on what they were this time last year :( It's making me very worried about paying my tax bill and getting through the winter.

PLus my sweet peas are shit

YANBU I am building an arc.

Farmers are never happy with the weather though. It's always good for some things and bad for others, whatever the conditions are.

YANBU. I am seriously fed up.

Can't remember June, except it broke records for rainfall...but I know it has rained every day in July so far, and the five day forecast indicates that there is no chance of that habit being broken any time soon.

I can't cut the grass, the rabbits are stuck in their hutch day after day, the tumble drier is working overtime and I barely leave the house without a coat and umbrella. My summer clothes are still in the loft and I even put my boots back on last week.

It's the last week of term next week and the kids should be outside using up some energy not winding each other up during yet another wet playtime.

The only thing keeping me going is looking forward to going to Dubai in two weeks' time - it's a dead cert that it won't rain while we're there!

I always ignore the 5 day forecast. They forecast rain all day if there might be a shower at 6am.

So fed up too. Haven't been on holiday for 5 years so have nothing to look forward to as an escape. Our days out, even on sunny days, are verging towards repetitive and boring as we can't afford to do much - invariably, most of them are outdoors based, long walks, parks, gardens, cycling. Such heavy, persistent rain makes all that near impossible ... no matter how you dress at least some bit of you still ends up soaked .... my glasses get wet, can't see .... everything becomes so much harder, and unappealing. It feels like we've been stuck inside for months and am going stir crazy. Back in Feb and March I was trying to get fit walking/running round footpaths, fields and woods near me .... then the rain started and those routes are now all quagmires and impossible to run on.

The garden's a mess .... the grass needs cutting, everything else needs cutting back as it's just romped away, and that includes weeds. I've never seen so many slugs and snails - who must think all their birthdays have come at once.

Gah !!!

Another farming family here. We stand to make a colossal loss this year as crops are behind/poor quality or totaly ruined by waterlogged field and lack of sun. We rely quite heavily on our crops for feeding the cows/sheep/horses during the winter.

Our paddocks are churned up beyond recognition like someone said further up thread our cows are also in the barns....... and grumpy about it!

DH has been soooo grumpy the last week as the river that runs through one side of our land is starting to come over and if it goes.......... thats another load of crops fucked and paddocks unable to use. Things like this can take years to recover from and in the current unstable climate could cause total financial ruin for some farmers.

YANBU. I have been rehearsing for the Opening ceremony of the Olympics, and we've all got soaked day in, day out. I thought I'd be spending the summer outside in the sun, getting a nice tan. I have spent the summer outside, getting wetter and wetter, still as pale as ever.

And it makes our part so much harder.

I'm in bed with a hot water bottle. In JULY. And it's not for pain relief, it's for warmth.

I wanted to have lost some weight by now, made a good start and lost a stone, but now it's not going so well. All I want to eat is stodgy food and too many biscuits, I keep buying salad and then not being able to face it, and I haven't had any decent exercise for far too long. I'm usually the sort of person who doesn't mind a bit of weather as long as I've got a good coat and boots (and a hat that keeps the water off my glasses ), but this is now getting depressing. I had plans for this summer and haven't so far done anything.

Did anyone mention it's St Swithin's day tomorrow?

Does anyone else think we've fucked the weather for good? I think this might be the way things are from now on. Best start planting paddy fields, farmers. :(

Actually, Snog, there is nothing for which this much rain is good. Cows are going lame, no hay, bad silage, supermarkets reducing prices while costs are rocketing.

We are not on main drainage and the cess pit, normally pumped out annually at a cost of £120, has already been emptied twice this year. It keeps filling with rain water, and when it is full the loo won't flush and the washing machine can't drain. Water is supposed to soak awy from it, but this year it is soaking into it! So it doesn't really matter that I can't dry clothes - I can't wash them in the first place!

YANBU, but I like the rain. I am not sure why but I do, and my lawn is looking lovely. I also have rainbow twinkling umbrella In black.

YANBU

I am sick to the back teeth of wet feet, jeans sticking to my legs. Just want to sit in the park, drink wine, eat a picnic and enjoy a bit of warmth.

Need a cheapo package holiday somewhere hot.

Oh and our shitty little basement flat springs several leaks whenever it rains. Awful. It's so bad to live in damp conditions.

yanbu i dont normally give a shit but seriously I'm thinking about buying and umbrella

I keep looking at the models in vain hope for change. They go to the 30 th now and at the moment there seems to be not a huge change in the weather pattern, the jet stream is still misbehaving. However in saying that It does also look like the jet stream is shifting a little further north so things may improve for those in the south.

Is that from now, OYBBK, or in a couple of weeks? (the shift north I mean) All I want is the wind to swing round to the north west rather than the south west, which I appreciate sounds a little weird :). We seem to be stuck in a south westerly rut, though i am very thankful that we have not had the terrible floods a lot of the country has had.

May I be the 100th person to say YANB(F-ing)U.

At the moment it looks to be roughly from next weekend ariel. I wouldn't base any important decisions around it though, as that's a long time in forecasting, but hopefully it's a hint of something better to come.