To feel like this about the fucking weather?

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I feel like we’ve had about six days of sun since last October. I am so fucking fed up of it. The nights are already drawing in again!! No money to go abroad so that’s out of the question. I just want to have the doors open, flip flops on, to dry clothes outdoors. I honestly feel it’s making me depressed with constant grey skies.

A couple of months ago I was in the ‘just put on waterproofs and go out and have a good time’ camp on these types of MN posts. Total change of heart now, I’m so bloody fed up and depressed by it and just desperate for sun. I don’t even care about it being that hot, just sick of greyness.

Exactly!

For those who seem clued up on weather patterns, what happened two years ago then? Lovely summer, heatwave (where I came to life as everyone else shrivelled up), then a winter where it was particularly cold (early '23 was well below zero every night for ages).

I'm genuinely concerned about the health of the nation as so many people will now be very vitamin D deficient after two summers of this. Wonder if that's contributing to the general gloom in the air? (Was pondering this as I'm still taking my D winter supplements most weeks due to the weather.)

I'm quite happy in heat, but don't need extremes. Just warmish sunny days, with a few fabulous summer storms to keep the plants happy! Even warm grey-but-not actually-raining days would do.

It's climate change with a bit of an El Nino hangover, we're back in El Nina.

What seems to be a feature of weather over recent years is that while the extremes are getting more extreme, single weather systems and patterns are lasting weeks rather than days.

Bag of shit “summer” so far, maybe even worse than last year? I can’t remember, it’s all a blur of grey and rain and misery 😂

Taken me two years to paint outside of house. Still a few patches to do

Still don’t possess washing line from moving in 3 years ago as I’m not exactly motivated

I'm in liverpool and every single day my watch sends me a notification saying 'chance of rain tomorrow'. I was running the other day and got battered by rain and wind.

Just give me low 20's and no rain until September.

We have a damp problem and I’m back to running our dehumidifier every night because I have no tumble dryer so we have to dry all our clothes on airers because we can’t dry them outside. Also means we can only do one load per day, and there’s 5 of us so the place is permanently like a feckin Chinese laundry. When it’s properly warm and sunny I can get three loads washed and dried outside in one day.

And once again the slugs are invading… I had to dispatch two of the slimy fuckers from my sitting room last night 😡.

Yep. I'm afraid so.

Warmer oceans means more water evaporating, which means more water and energy in the atmosphere.

We're in a La Niña phase now, so increased rainfall and colder winters are to be expected.
Unfortunately if you can't afford to few holidays a year or to move abroad, you just have to get on with it

Ideally it would be sunny, 20/21 degrees, no rain and a slight breeze.

But if I can’t have that then I’ll take rain over the 40 degree days we had the other year that was grim.

More fool me for voting Starmer for change.

Didn't realise that Starmer had promised to change the weather - give the poor fella a break, he's only been in 5 days.

Climate breakdown means it is becoming milder, wetter and windier in the UK. Not all the time but more of the time. We just have to get used to it given it's literally happening around us. In other parts of the world climate breakdown is resulting in drought, floods, extreme storms etc. Surely everybody knows this? Be careful where you wish for when you think about emigrating, could actually be a lot worse.

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It's utterly miserable! My husband suffers from SAD and hasn't had much of a break!

We go to Florida in January to break the winters up and this year we went during a bad weather spell - ended up on tornado watch 😂😂 I just need some sun!

Climate change does not mean exclusively hotter weather - it also means unpredictable and unusual weather.

Didn't realise that Starmer had promised to change the weather - give the poor fella a break, he's only been in 5 days.

Then he should have been more specific!

Seriously though...I'm an all-year-round outdoors person. I've got kit for everything, I can get out in pretty much any weather and do.
But you know...nothing, NOTHING beats being out in nature on a good weather day. Nothing beats a summit with a clear view. Nothing delights like the dappled sun on a forest ride. Nothing is as welcome as good weather on a humble camping trip. Seeing the sun rise, watching it set.
I long for that.

In other news, which may be even more controversial than climate change...do you think all the people who painted everything they could grey, are still enjoying their colour scheme?

There's a reason it works in the south of France and not here.

It's the dense white, grey cloud; it feels ominous. I don't remember ever seeing cloud cover this dense for so long and I am in my 50s.

Yep. Used ours once a week or so ago…never had need for it since.

I agree! The weather is awfully depressing

To be totally honest, I don't mind the temperature - it is pleasant and I don't enjoy it being too hot. I just wish it were dry. A cool but dry summer would be fine as you could be outside lots and still enjoy the time.

What's upsetting me about this weather is that increasingly, the school holidays are shit and I'm sad for my DC that they won't have memories of long, warm summers and playing outside every evening like I have of my childhood. Feel like we've barely used the garden yet this year considering we are well into July 😢 the majority of the nice days, I've been stuck in work on long shifts. It's shit.

This is one of the reasons i left the country. It made me so miserable

I'm someone who is perpetually too warm and whose dream summer temp is about 22 degrees... and yet I HATE this shit weather.

My garden looks terrible as well as every time I've attempted to get out there to weed and cut the hedge it's pissed it down. The fence I started painting in April is still only half painted for the same reason.

Just some dry days would do me right now. What a total washout.

Yep so dark and grey today felt so meh. Personally I just want to flick people in the face who bleat on about Autumn and Winter, that's fine but it's Summer so we should be having nice weather!