Sick of this fucking weather. No wonder we are all ill and fat.

[Wayofliving]

The heating has been on at home at some point every day for the past 7 months. I’ve no inclination to get out and walk or do anything at all after work. I come home and cook comfort food as there’s sod all else to do. Drying washing everywhere, house always looks untidy.

It’s always cold, dark, rainy, depressing. If we’re lucky we’ll get 2-3 months of a bit of warmth and sunshine before it all starts waning towards winter again.

No wonder there’s lots of bugs and colds around, we’re all indoors all the time! Couple the shitty weather with high costs of living, crap public services and it makes me wonder why I didn't feck off to Australia when I was younger.

No point to this post, just a moan!

Anywhere north of liverpool has been rainy, grey and miserable.

@Wildgeen · Today 21:35

Thankfully I don’t know anyone like this in IRL 😂

Well exactly. I don't know a single soul in real life who just LOVES the shitty cold windy rainy weather, and especially not in the middle of SPRING. The type of weather that stops you doing fuck-all. NO-ONE likes it. NO-ONE says 'oooh ... but jigsaws, snuggles on the sofa, board games, big cosy jumpers, and HOT CHOCOLATE!' in real life ... NO-ONE!!!

I have quite a few fields around me that are flooded with several big bodies of water, and there are legit a bunch of ducks, and geese, (around 20 of each,) and 8 swans - on the bodies of water in the fields. They have been there for some 4 months, now; rainwater flooding the fields, and causing actual big pools now. These 'pools' are their new home. They're fucking fields!

Its the thick cloud blocking the sun thats grim. No Vitamin D to be had this year so far.

"Edinburgh has had 1.5 times the average rainfall for April, and we're just over a week into the new month".

Quote from weather man on BBC. Along with weather warnings and the usual about rain falling on "already saturated ground".

Is it the new normal for the UK, warmer but wetter? I suppose it is likely part of climate change, and needs political action on a global level.

In Cornwall, currently 50-60 mph winds and it feels like it hasn't stopped raining since about 1982..

This same thread topic was posted a few weeks ago and the amount of "are you made of sugar OP?" replies was just embarrassing.

I agree OP. It's the wettest 18 month period on record. It's been miserable. West coast of Scotland here and I'm fucking sick of it. This is also the first year that the weather has affected my mood like this- it's a marked difference from previous years.

Does anyone remember the Ali g sketch where he says something about how global warming might make the UK hotter than Ibiza....let's make it happen 😂

SE here too.
Yeah, I was like " what a beautiful day" this morning. And it was warm and sunny until you got a breeze and the sun went in behind a cloud.
And then at 4.30pm it was rainy and then properly chucking it down again at 5pm. It's stopped now. It's not cold but the rain means nothing stays warm for long.

I want a sunny day and a balmy night. I was sunbathing in the garden though the first 6 weeks of lockdown ( before I had to go back to work for the rest of it). Not the same this year.

It's thrashing it down here....again. 6 months of non stop rain. The fields are fucked and the outlook for food farming is dire.

I mean, I think many places have had a number of days where there has been SOME sun, but it doesn't last. It just rains EVERY DAY, and there's more rain than sunny/dry weather, by a country mile!

I think it makes a big difference where you live in the UK. Some places seem damper than others.
I don't mind the rain too much but it has made everywhere really muddy. I have all the right gear but mud makes places slippy.

I love the winter though. I love a long walk in the cold then going home for a cozy cup of tea by the fire.

"Find it mad people let the weather affect their lives"

@Rosesanddaisies1 are you normally so narrow minded that you think people are mad just because somethings that don't affect you affects them?
Have you never heard of SAD?

We are bored with doing the same walks all the time because any path that isn't paved is a quagmire. I do have weather appropriate clothes, but walking in mud in pissing down sideways rain is a joyless endurance test not a pleasure. The novelty of walking in the rain wore off months ago and as a glasses wearer it is even more annoying.

I'm with you @Wayofliving, and am staggered that 24% of posters think YABU.
It will be all the summer haters who have a fit of the vapours as soon as the temperature reaches double figures.

My garden is a swamp and I haven't cut the grass since October.

game changer with drying washing on wet days, on clothes airer in kitchen treated myself to a meaco dehumidifier , few pence an hour on laudry setting,shut kitchen door turn washing after 3 hours, after 6 hours evan big thick towels are much drier,tumble dry a bit to finish off,i have a dog have to walk morning and evening i average 15000 steps a day .still over weight but fit,we will be moaning too hot in august, thats the joy of british weather

Someone here is very fed up by the mud and rain.. Despite coats , she gets mud soaked, the fields are inches deep in mud and water.

We were 20-30 miles outside of London today at an outdoor event and thought I'd be ok with a long sleeve tshirt on (with a vest underneath)....I went back to the car to put a jacket on. This was around mid day. Admittedly around 3pm it was warm enough without the jacket.....and then it pissed down with rain about 6.30pm....

Yes I hate this weather and the stinky, slippy mud!

I hate that my garden is like a swamp and the windy weather gives me rage! Today's weather was wonderful...despite the rain showers late afternoon.
We are totally weather dependant here, there js only so much time we can spend indoors, until we need to get some great air. Or have kids 😀

Gorgeous doggy @oakleaffy. What's her name?

100%

Farmers unable to tend to the land , waterlogged fields.
Goodness knows what the price of veg will be

I've actually called over three times in the mud, where my feet have slid out from underneath me {clay soil and hilly where we are} Wellingtons are crucial - walking boots won't cut the wet fields.

it might 'be' a saying but it's a stupid one. No amount of waterproofs can make grey sky more appealing than clear blue, brown mud more appealing than green grass, relentless drizzle more appealing than sun (doesn't even have to be hot, just clear).
objectively there is such a thing as bad weather, no matter what you're wearing.

Plus waterproofs "might" keep you dry but they also make me hot and sweaty.

You can wear as many waterproofs as you like, it doesn't make sitting on a bench having a chat with a friend or having a picnic, in pouring rain, in any way fun.

Full proper head-to-do waterproofs and comfortable dry boots are expensive too. There are lots of things you can wear them for, like going for a run. Most people don't have a mudroom or even a cloakroom so end up traipsing water and mud back into the living room or hall which would need to be swept and washed every single day for a family going in and out in the rain.

In the 1940s there were very cold winters with frozen waste pipes on houses.
In medieval times as well as Black Death there were some years with no sun therefore no harvest.
At least we are spared those extremes.

Cute doggo @oakleaffy (at 22.47.) She looks as pissed off as most of us on this thread feel! 😆