AIBU to be fucked off to fuck with this shitty weather

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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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ohyoubadbadkitten do YOU think all this rain is portentous of us having done something really really bad to the climate? Seriously, I'm worried.

YADNBU
PIL whole road has been flooded. Twice. Several of their neighbours have had to move out of their homes because the damage is so extensive. Their next door neighbours run a business that coats plantpots and stuff in special paint that repels slugs, which would be great for business if the rain hadn't flooded their garage and ruined everything. FIL's sports car has been flooded out too and may not be usable again. They don't even live near a river/water source.

Our roof leaks when it rains,the garden is overgrown, washing is covering every available surface and this is making the house very damp and peeling all the new wallpaper off the walls!

Dp is doing his nut as well, and if he says "fucking rain" once more to me I might loose my sanity. Cabin fever is setting in!!! 5mo dd is also antsy and irritable cuz we cant even go out for a bloody walk!!!!

I also feel incredibly sorry for the farmers out there :(

You know I will blame you if it doesn't happen don't you?

We are fortunate in that we haven't been flooded, so I feel I can't complain too much.

But today I've re-washed yet another load of washing that just won't dry and stinks.

It's just too wet and muddy to even take the children to the park - we tried and it's just like a boggy marsh.

The garden that we spent a load of time and money sorting out in February and March when the sun was out is now overgrown and rampant with weeds.

I'm not a sun person, but this is really pissing me off now.

YANBU. I should rant or complain as we're not really suffering but:

• it has rained here (and I mean proper rain, not just drizzle) for several hours a day - if not all day- every single day since 1st June;
• our roof is so bad that we have water coming into our bedroom in three separate places. The roofer doesn't know when he'll be able to work on the roof as (a) he needs it to be dry and (b) he has a massive back log of work. It is incredibly depressing to be sat in bed at night feeding DS & listening to water dripping. I worry that a new leak is going to start above the moses basket & keep waking up to check;
• I am on ML and was really looking forward to a summer outdoors with toddler DD & showing her all sorts of things. We live in a beautiful part of the world with some lovely local parks, riverside walks etc which we've hardly seen. We didn't bother going to see the torch last week as we would have got soaked &, given the forecast, I doubt we'll go & see the swan upping this week. Instead, we're going to the same old soft play centres & toddler groups we did all winter & which we'd both had enough of;
• DS (born on the second of those sunny days in May) has reflux so I am doing at least 2 or 3 loads of washing a day, 95% of which is being tumble dried. I am dreading my electricity bill;
• also due to reflux, DS is a nightmare to settle but its easier if he's out in the pram. I want to be able to just walk out of my front door and go for a stroll but, due to the weather, I often end up driving to the local shopping centre & aimlessly wandering around there. It is so depressing. And don't mention the "wrong clothes" thing as I have very good water proofs but the road through the village floods so quickly & badly that cars are either sending waves across the pavement or driving on the pavement in an attempt to keep out of the worst of the water;
• yet again, I have made a casserole for dinner. I want a light, summery dish for a change but it would be so unsatisfying in this weather;
• I was thrilled earlier to realise that Next have got their winter stock online so I can order DD (whose had a massive growth spurt) some nice, thick jumpers for her to wear as I've been having to wrap her up in umpteen layers recently;
• DS is going to have so many unworn clothes as I had bought him a couple of short sleeved or short legged outfits & he got loads of T-shirt & short sets as presents but is never going to have a chance to wear them whilst they still fit.

Please, please, please tell me we will have some sunshine soon.

Skink, I do find it interesting that we have for the past two or three years been flipping from one extreme to the other, depending on where the jet stream has got itself stuck. I want to find time to see how typical that is of previous weather patterns.

I'd also like to look more at the theory that it is because of polar ice melting, reducing the temperature differential between the north pole and the equator - which could upset the flow of the jet stream. ( this year it seems to be meandering in great loops and our weather depends where the loops are relative to us.)

kitten do you reckon we are going to get more than one week of sun soon?

I wish I knew thenightsky. Ive been looking at 2007 which had a similar June July. That August saw England somewhat more settled than it had been with average temps but Scotland still was plagued with above average rainfall and below average temps. Hard to know whether this year will follow suit.

So OhYouBadKitten, why is it so different up here in the North West of Scotland, where we have had no significant rainfall, and one of the dryest summers on record. We've even got less midges as it's not damp enough for them?
It's weird, it's usually the opposite?
Interested, as we seem to be such an anomoly compared to the rest of the UK.

I read that its all do with the gulf stream or someting. It normally sits above scotland, but is currently sitting just around the english channel.

Ladybeagle, it's because the jet stream is south of you so you are out of the firing line of the low pressure systems associated with it.

Well I'm very grateful to you jet stream.
But for those that are flooded, it sounds like my worst nightmare.
As for the constant rain, I'm so used to it, but it's lovely to have a break.

Love.y lovely lush gardens. Lots of cuddling on rainy days.

I am on Hols in suffolk and today might be the only decnt day.....but I have written off the weather

St Swithin's day today
'St. Swithin's day if thou dost rain
For forty days it will remain
St. Swithin's day if thou be fair
For forty days 'twill rain nae mair.'

Forecast is sunny down in SW today! I'm still holding out hope for a summer

Called DS2 Noah when he was born in April. Which is beginning to look like a bad joke...!

Part of my business is selling clothes and thankfully we don't rely solely upon that for income. Sales have been so slow as who the hell needs a summer dress? And Autumn/winter stock starts arriving next week.

I feel for many business owners who rely upon weather for sales the economy is difficult enough without this on top

YANBU

All of you can Blame my DH - He bought a boat in May, a sodding little speed boat, for all the sunny weather we were going to have, days out with the DS's, Its has no name at the moment so I'm going to call it Noahs Ark!!

My new name is based on the fact all I have in my house is smelly old dogs! My home stinks to high heaven, the wet from their coats has soaked into the core of my house, but they just have to go on long walks come rain or shine.

BUT looking out of the window today it's sunny? dare I put the washing out?

Oh that is so sad about the boat!

I don't mind the rain too much, though lying in bed with awful pregnancy stuff it was miserable to see cloudy skies out of the window day after day.

Now I'm starting to get past that bit, I'm loving the fact I can wear my autumn coat (bit of a teenage misery still, at 38) and don't have to remember to shave my legs as I am in trousers all the time.

I am worried about the garden though, which is a complete jungle, full of convolvulus and nettles and the grass is two feet long. There are huge frogs everywhere!! So I can't mow the 'lawn'. Bit worried that landlord will come back and see it and chuck us out. But I'm not finding thewashing too bad, I just drape it over doors and furniture and it is usually dry in a day or two - plus it's less work than pegging it out!

Rain doesn't bother me as much as when it is TOO hot.

I'm quite liking singing that Graceland song "Rain, rain, rain, rain - beautiful rain !" this morning ..... That some clever advertisement bod has made good use of - only prob I can't remember the product - but I did enjoy the advert and it's got me humming along - 25th anniversary of that album coming out too - Can you believe that ?

Its dry today here all day!! (and will be for lots of us) woohoo - it means I can ignore the computer models because its now going to be dry for 40 days!

LOL at your apt Noah born in April BeyondTheLimits

It seems as though we are getting the summer which the far north generally enjoys whereas they are getting more Scandinavian type conditions - much calmer and more settled. I echo OYBBK's view that it has been a bit like 2007 only bloody worse in that we have had a shocking early part of the summer. I recall that year August being ok and September and October being absolutely beautiful. So there's hope yet! People keep asking me what the long term forecast is, and I have started replying that I have given up looking at it!

It's interesting that weather-people are noting that patterns appear to be getting stuck for weeks on end in recent years - very long cold spells, very long snowy spells, very long wet spells and very long windy spells. Just never very long sunny spells it seems!