To be beyond sick of this foul weather!?

[MsLuxLisbon]

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.

I’m so fed up with the cold. I’m usually out and starting on the gardening by now.

Its my birthday this time of year, so I was trying to remember if its was ever like this as I was growing up. And I think the answer is yes. I was born in the 1950’s and I have no memories of being outside and enjoying the warm weather on my Birthday.

I grew up with the saying ‘cast ne’er a clout til May is out’ and I remember it once snowing the first week of April. (I’ve always lived in the south of England, so this wasn’t the Scottish highlands).

I even tried to console myself this morning to see if I could find a record of the temperature on my birthday for the last 60 years - no luck.

So I’ve decided we’ve probably just been going through much earlier milder springs for the last 20 or 30 years, and this is what April used to be like.

Haha! Yes! Mind you I would probably find it cathartic to tell them where to go with their prissy positivity.

I'm with you OP. Pass the Hari Kari sword.

It was decent here today, although it felt like some joker was flicking the lights (and heating) on and off.

Wettest 18 months since records began in the 1830s, OP, so you’re not wrong.

What makes it even worse is the yet higher food prices on the way because of this sustained bad weather and the impact on crops.

Shite weather and skint, what a rotten combination.

I agree. I think we’ve only had maybe 7 fully dry days since the end of June. I really don’t care if it’s 15 degrees out, if it’s raining it doesn’t really matter does it.

I can’t tell you how many events have been cancelled due to the rain and wind this year. I spend hours outside walking and exercising but even my usually warm dry coat has given up. There’s not enough hot chocolate to cheer up this awful weather.

I don't think the supermarkets will be able to hike prices up much more. They got greedy and inflated them too high earlier, so they will just have to absorb them this time around.

They won't be able to absorb prices - they don't have a duty to ensure we are fed

136% more rain in April than the average. It's blowing and raining here in south wales. Won't be getting my steps in this evening

I feel sorry for clothes manufacturers. Who wants to buy summer clothes when it's like this?

I’m solar powered and running on empty lol.

I'm sure when I looked the other day there were nice days in the forecast and a bit warmer. Now the BBC weather has got some rain in every day for the next 10 days 😫

They'll have to. It isn't so much a question of duty, but if people can't afford the prices they charge, what's the point of charging them? As I say, they will have to make do with the profits they made out of us by using inflation as an excuse to overcharge.

To be fair, I've stopped looking at the BBC forecast. Try met office, that is both more optimistic and to be fair more accurate.

What makes you think the supermarkets are overcharging?

They won't sell things at a loss, and they won't absorb the cost.

I’m with you OP…and I say that a rampant hayfever sufferer who loathes really hot weather.

Even I’m getting pissed off with endless wet weather and still having the heating on!

Absolutely sick of this cold, wet windy weather. Its done nothing but pissing rain since July last year.
Walking the dog has become a chore as we're having to clean him down as he gets pretty muddy/mucky.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy getting out and about. We often go walking in The Peak District and visit The Lakes but this cold drear and wet can bog off now!
Right now I'm wearing two long sleeved tops with the heating on.
I'm so longing for warm dry weather, sitting in the garden, drying clothes outside and warm sunny evening walks.

That's not how it works.

They will sell less of the items that are in shortage, but at a higher price. People will get priced out of buying lots of non-essentials as essentials become much more expensive.

The cacao harvest was very bad, beans are up to 4 times their previous prices, which means chocolate is going to become a more luxury purchase. Olive harvest in Spain (one of the largest producers) has been terrible because of heatwaves and prices of olive oil have skyrocketed.

Wheat, barley and oilseed rape harvests have been badly affected by the wet weather in th UK, so anything with them as a base ingredient will go up (on top of the rise of of wheat and sunflower oil as a result of the Ukraine war).

Supermarkets will charge what they need to, and our standard of living will inevitably drop. Again.

It is the wind direction that is the bother. North wind Makes it unsettled, brings in cold air and very chilly.

pray for a south wind to bring milder conditions. This is not normal. We usually have milder air blowing in from the southern climates by now.

I'm not sure I agree. There is only so much that people will take. As I said, they already made massive profits on their falsely inflated prices earlier.

Same! If I believed the BBC one I would be suicidal by now.

I know. I feel like I live in a basin. A deep, dark flooded basin. I'm sick of being cold and my washing won't dry.

Of course they're overcharging! I have noticed that they've started to roll it back a little, though. For the first time in about half a year, I have noticed that my food bills have gone down.

Exactly! It’s not so much the cold weather but the permanently grey skies that get me down.

Unfortunately fuel has gone back up again and supermarkets use a lot of it. Supplier to warehouse, warehouse to store. Plus the minimum wage increase, and higher cost prices. It'll all go into the pricing.

Again, not how it works.

Unless you're expecting an actual peasant's revolt, the prices will go up some more, eveyone will be angry about it, living standards will drop again, and life will go on.

Supermarkets can't and won't absorb significant price rises. Nor can farmers.

Me too! It feels like it's been raining forever. October last year went to Mallorca, guess what is rained. Then Easter just gone went to Cyprus. Guess what it rained-torrential rain.I feel like we're never gonna get any warmth.