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To be beyond sick of this foul weather!?

172 replies

MsLuxLisbon · 29/04/2024 11:03

Just this! Will we actually ever get some decent weather, I swear it has been raining since last July. I don't think my mental health will take much more. Luckily I have a couple of summer holidays planned somewhere hot, but even still. Bleugh.

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Shopper727 · 29/04/2024 13:35

I think the odd lovely day we have in amongst all the cold windy and rainy days makes it worse, it’s like a glimmer of hope then the next day it’s back to being grim

focusonwhatmatters · 29/04/2024 13:38

I'm with you OP!

The calendar says it's spring and going towards summer. Reality is that I'm still in my winter clothes as it's freezing. I've had enough of this now.

DCINightingale · 29/04/2024 13:39

YANBU, its just been relentless. Shitty weather seems to have coincided with us getting solar panels fitted late last year. I am so sick of it! Although today we have a little sunshine and I feel so much better for it. No doubt it will start crapping it down as soon as I set foot outside later.

Jeminii · 29/04/2024 13:41

YADNBU OP. Yes it pretty much has rained since July 23 (farmer and have horses so VERY aware of the past 8/9 months of shite weather).

My worry is - the water table is so high and the ground so sodden, if we have another 12 months like the last 12 months where are we going to be? Other than needing an ark? We need a long, decent summer to counterbalance the last 8/9 months of shit, not just a couple of weeks again. 😬

Evenstar · 29/04/2024 13:42

I am sitting under my heated throw shivering 🥶

Secretsquirrelsunite · 29/04/2024 14:39

Andtheworldwentwhite · 29/04/2024 11:21

So sick of it. I need to get in my garden and it just keeps raining. 🌧️ I’m done with this. I think having a bad summer last year has made it seem even longer. I’m going to complain. But I don’t know who to complain to 😂

My garden is in a right state. I did a bit yesterday, still need to clear up the clippings, but it has rained relentlessly all day with a biting wind. I've lost most of my first lot of veg seeds, but my second lot isn't germinating. Thought I'd buy instead, but B&Q only had a few wind burnt stragglers in stock.

Ginmonkeyagain · 29/04/2024 14:43

It's dry and sunny here on London today and set for the high teens temperature wise this week.

If it any consolation, I did contemplate building an Ark at some point in the early hours of Sunday morning.

ChangeEmailAddress · 29/04/2024 14:59

Arable farmer here (crops) failed crops last year, no wheat in the ground this year, barley still to drill, beyond wet and late. UK failing wheat crop, massively fewer fields of rape around, looking forward to the hike in the cost of bread and oil from the supermarket and prices still shit due to imports. Remind me again why farming has the highest suicide rate of any profession!

And yes, bit of a flippant comment, but we have all lost a neighbour.

MereDintofPandiculation · 29/04/2024 15:05

Our local cricket league has delayed the start of the season by two weeks because half the pitches are waterlogged

wombleberry · 29/04/2024 15:07

Yes, it sucks. For everyone, but farmers in particular.

Precipice · 29/04/2024 15:12

Pretty warm here! SE. Very sunny and top of the house heats up, so I've had the window upstairs open for about four hours. Forecast for this week around here is showing 15-17 C, which I think is fine spring weather.

Bluebellsinthewind · 29/04/2024 15:12

Another one here, who would love to feel the sun on my frozen bones. We have had none stop rain and grey for months now. We were at - 1 last night!

Gangof7 · 29/04/2024 15:45

I feel the same it’s bloody never ending 😬 I had to dash out to bring some washing in last night cos I thought it was raining- it was hailstones. Should have seen the state of me snd my jamas when I got back in 🤣🤣

TrickorTreacle · 29/04/2024 15:51

April was colder than average.

However, @MsLuxLisbon conveniently forgot that February and March were warmer than average this year. 17C in February!

Billyandharry · 29/04/2024 15:51

I agree OP it's bloody awful. So depressing. I don't want to embrace ' Hygee' in bloody April ffs.

Movinghouseatlast · 29/04/2024 15:52

Yet another wet, cold and windy day here in Cornwall.

This is not usual.weather by any means. 2 weeks ago the receptionist at or GP told me they had counted for fun the amount of dry days since October. It was 11. 11.

It's actually effecting my income as I have a holiday business. I'm £3k down on last year for April. Who is going to book.a weekend away when they look at the weather forecast and it's constant rain and cold? That added to COLC and I'm buggered really.

DeleteIfNotAloud · 29/04/2024 15:58

TrickorTreacle · 29/04/2024 15:51

April was colder than average.

However, @MsLuxLisbon conveniently forgot that February and March were warmer than average this year. 17C in February!

Warmer than average isn't really much use when it's combined with wetter than average though is it! Yay it's pissing it down but also kinda warm, so I can't even wear a proper coat without sweating. Great.

It's been the wettest 18 months on record, if I remember right.

DeleteIfNotAloud · 29/04/2024 15:59

Billyandharry · 29/04/2024 15:51

I agree OP it's bloody awful. So depressing. I don't want to embrace ' Hygee' in bloody April ffs.

Ugh hygge can go fuck itself at this point.

Bluebellsinthewind · 29/04/2024 16:00

@Movinghouseatlast I am the same. Have a holiday agency in the Highlands and things are grim 😬

WishIMite · 29/04/2024 16:00

Movinghouseatlast · 29/04/2024 15:52

Yet another wet, cold and windy day here in Cornwall.

This is not usual.weather by any means. 2 weeks ago the receptionist at or GP told me they had counted for fun the amount of dry days since October. It was 11. 11.

It's actually effecting my income as I have a holiday business. I'm £3k down on last year for April. Who is going to book.a weekend away when they look at the weather forecast and it's constant rain and cold? That added to COLC and I'm buggered really.

Yes I'm not surprised about this: DH and I would usually go away in the UK, but we haven't bothered this year as the weather has been so awful. Don't want to pay hundreds of pounds to sit in someone else's house watching the rain.... may as well stay at home. Crap innit?

Fizbosshoes · 29/04/2024 17:10

Pickingmyselfup · 29/04/2024 11:39

It's awful and I am fed up of it. It's all very well saying there is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing but where is the joy is forever being togged up in waterproofs?

I want to sit on my new garden sofa with a drink next to my new chimnea and enjoy the dry warner evenings.

I want to go for a run off road that I can actually run without stopping to trudge delicately through mud. I can't run through it for fear of falling over, I don't particularly want to get my feet wet and I can't wear wellies to run.

I'm just over it especially when Iooked the forecast and it's raining all day Wednesday Thursday and Friday.

I go running in the rain, I will walk in the rain and the cold but every day with no break is really not enjoyable. I want to feel the warmth!!!

Agree I'm a runner too and at this time of year its usually nice to get out on paths and trails I do run through boggy and wet paths but it would be so much nicer to come back with dry feet for a change!

I nearly always do an off road fun run over the may bank holiday. I'm considering trail shoes for next week unless I want to face plant or fall a over t!

StripyHorse · 29/04/2024 17:14

YANBU.

I love blue skies. It doesn't even need to be warm, a crisp winter day is lovely. But - we had a cold, wet summer, a dreary autumn, a mild damp winter, and now a grey, windy spring. It feels like we haven't even had different seasons apart from the number of daylight hours changing.

Computercalendar · 29/04/2024 17:17

Lovely sunny weather where I am (south east). It has instantly lifted my mood. I'm sure it will be short lived anyway.

MsLuxLisbon · 29/04/2024 17:34

TrickorTreacle · 29/04/2024 15:51

April was colder than average.

However, @MsLuxLisbon conveniently forgot that February and March were warmer than average this year. 17C in February!

It bloody didn't feel like it. And there was still constant rain.

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MsLuxLisbon · 29/04/2024 17:35

WishIMite · 29/04/2024 16:00

Yes I'm not surprised about this: DH and I would usually go away in the UK, but we haven't bothered this year as the weather has been so awful. Don't want to pay hundreds of pounds to sit in someone else's house watching the rain.... may as well stay at home. Crap innit?

I agree, no more staycations for me. It's abroad or nothing!

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