Is the amount of rain we've had bothering anyone else?

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Thankfully not in a flooded area but we are still getting a ridiculous amount of rainfall.
Our local river is overflowing and has flooded the adjacent banks.
I mean how long will it take to dry the ground out? Is this because of global warming/climate change?
How are the insurance companies even going to be able to make a start on repairs when we're still getting so much rain?

I'm in central Scotland and this rain is BULLSHIT. Today is the first day it hasn't rained/snowed/sleeted in what feels like forever, but the downside to that is I had to scrape my car and the street around my house were like an ice rink.

I'm dying for spring now.

The UK always floods, we are an island surrounded by water after all...

I'm fed up, bought a new build off plan and the weather keeps delaying the build. Poor DDog keeps getting soaking and filthy every time we take him out.

Living in the South-East we've had 3 hot, dry summers & dry winters on the trot.
We were being informed in September 2019 by the water company that if 2019-2020 autumn/winter were as dry then we'd get hosepipe bans in 2020.
October 2019 the rain started & it's been marvellous! The garden looks amazing - it's been mild & we've had sunny days - and everything looks so lush & green. My wintering flowering plants have gone beserk and my biennials are looking more healthy than they should at this time.
It goes to show that decent rain helps the garden more than me carefully watering. In my area, this rain has been brilliant.
Of course I understand that wetter areas of the country have been flooding consistently for years and I can't imagine what that can be like. I wish the government would step in & maintain flood defences.

I'm in York and this has been one of the wettest and windiest winters i've known since being here, surrounding fields are underwater, paths, car parks and parks underwater, thankfully the new flood defences we've just finished are holding well and so far homes are ok, there are business flooded that are affected everytime the river rises, i hope they are ok as they have been closed longer than usual this year due to storm after storm
My lawn is a swamp though as it's lower than the road so all run off goes to my garden.
Really sick of the rain now, i can take the wind but we so desperately need places to dry out

I live in a riverside town that is well known for flooding. We are on a flood plain and well used to the rivers breaking their banks flooding fields, roads and sometimes properties -- usually a week or two a couple of times a year. This year has been different though. The floods have been up pretty much constantly since about October. Every time they almost dry up, they come back. People whose homes and businesses were under water a week ago are currently bracing themselves as the water comes back up again today. Fields, parks and gardens even not near the rivers are swampy and waterlogged. The flood water is dangerous (contaminated with sewage and ha s a strong current) so walking dogs and getting outdoors with children has been difficult. The amount of rain is bothering me!

It's bothering me. I've lived in this town for 6 years, I've never seen any flooding until this winter, now the river has burst its banks 3 times in as many months.
I have a toddler that needs plenty of fresh air and exercise otherwise he climbs the walls, but I don't want to stand outside in the wind and rain with a 4mo baby while he runs about. Can't wait for summer!

Lancashire here and it’s pissing down yet again. I’m building an ark in my back garden.

I don't mind rain at all, but then I have the luxury of living somewhere that is not a flood risk. I'm in the Lothians.

We’ve had very little rain where we are. I’m used to having a good amount of rain during winter so I find the dry winters we have here quite unsettling (I’m Australian so have always had a thing about not getting enough rain over the winter and find it makes me quite uncomfortable).

The garden looks amazing

Mine looks like a bog. :(

I'm lucky we don't have floods but I do know a neighbour who was flooded about 8 years ago , but it's rare. We are not near a river.
I remember much colder winters in my youth and rainy ones ; when it's too dry over winter or spring there is also a big problem with droughts , so you can't win. I feel for the ones being flooded out though ; must be so grim and a lot can't get insurance anymore either. There should be a lot more help for those people but our government will properly ignore it all. It must be heartbreaking losing your possessions.

Is this because of global warming/climate change?

I think so. The weather has changed a lot over the past few years IMO: no proper, below-freezing winters, just endless weirdly mild autumns; early fake spring, when the birds start to nest and flowers come out, followed by a short cold spell that confuses everything; freakishly hot weather around May and then no decent summer in June–August...

This is in London btw; I know it's not the same everywhere.

I've noticed the approach of the media has changed significantly since the last bad floods in 2015, where they'd run pieces debating whether it was down to climate change or not. None of those now. It's openly attributed to global warming. Frankly I'm amazed there's people on here still trying to convince themselves it's all normal.

We are on the NE coast of Scotland, we really haven't had it that bad. Had a few windy days, and quite a lot of rainy days but it's been comparable calm than areas further south. We have had no snow, no floods, and a good few sunny days!!

So those that say Scotland is miserable .. 👍👍👍

we are an island surrounded by water after all...

"Surrounded by" not "covered in"

Antigua is also an island surrounded by water...

I'm so fed up of it, although probably not quite as fed up as my dog is. He usually enjoys (as do I) a couple of 3+ mile long off-lead walks each day. We're lucky to live next to woods and a common, but we've had to stick to pretty much walking around the village streets as it's so muddy where we usually walk and there have been a couple of cases of Alabama Rot locally since Christmas (if you're not a dog person, it's a disease which is contracted from mud and can be fatal in dogs if not identified and treated very quickly).

I feel really down at the moment and I think it's the weeks of bleak weather. Every single weekend has been cold, wet and windy and this week it's been snowy too. I am just fed up of it. I'd love to just book a flight somewhere hot but am skint so will just have to grin and bear it.

The effects of climate change and global weirding has been know about for decades. Scientists kept saying the same thing but no one was taking them seriously, so here we are.

Beyond tipping point.

Global weirding is only going to get more extreme.

If significant changes had been made 30 years ago, we would not be at this point now.

Over population, mismanagement of resources, deforestation, polution, heavily populated areas causing micro climates, dairy and beef industy impact with methane emissions, burning of fossil fuels, huge increase in plastic production, poor water management, transport emissions etc. Not really a surprise that the earths systems such as weather, climate, ocean currents and other fluid dynamics are shot to shit. Consumers, that is you and i, are the driving force behind the crap that is now happening.

Yes we've had three weeks of wet and windy weather with only the odd dry spell and The weather forecast of the next 10 days is the same.
I'm sure come summer we will be grateful there's no hosepipe ban but at the moment it's definitely getting us down.
Poor kids only have a short walk to school so it's pointless getting the car out (a 3 minute walk) but they get drenched morning and afternoon.

Oh and pesticide use on a massive scale causing the soil to be barren with nothing but the prescribed one crop growth for in some areas miles on end. This causes soil erosion from wind and rain, draughts, as there are not enough trees to act as the earths lungs, moisture makers and a buffer for weather systems.

Yep i am pretty fucked off with the shit that could have been diverted and stopped, if 'we' had listened to environmental scientists.

Is this because of global warming/climate change?

When Donald Trump pointed to freezing conditions and ridiculed global warming he was (rightly) taken to task for confusing weather and climate.

My Grandmother used to bemoan the state of the weather "these days". I think it's very easy to imagine major changes are happening when you look out of the window and the weather looks odd - but you have to realise that -

1. People's memories are short, and faulty
2. Our individual lifespan is too short to see noticeable differences (if what climate scientists are saying is true)
3. All of our data is based on records we have - and in earth terms, we haven't been keeping records for very long.

For all the above reasons, I don't believe we can say for certain whether the current weather is (or indeed is not) directly attributable to global warming.

No? How about the fresh cold water being dumped into the seas and oceans from ice cap meltage and degalciation? So we owe our temperate climate to the gulf stream. The gulf stream in the atlantic ocean has a huge impact on the climate conditions that is formed above the atlantic ocean. Just because one is the water in the sea and one is the air and water above the sea does not mean that they do not interfere directly. They do and can be viewed as parts of a whole process.

m.phys.org/news/2017-06-climate-gulf-stream.html

Now scale that up to all of the different very closely connected ocean circulation pattens and it is not had to see why we have huge climate issues and weather patten changes.

not ‘palm trees in Scotland’ as some people used to stupidly enthuse.

Doubly stupidly as we already HAVE palm trees in Scotland. This is Inverewe further north than Inverness.