To be utterly sick of this weather?

[VaxMerstappen]

We always get plenty of people moaning on here whenever we're lucky enough to get some warm weather and a few days of sunshine in summer, so how about one for the utterly crap weather we have now?

Last weekend was dismal, it felt like it didn't get light all weekend - just constant rain/drizzle and grey skies. Today open the curtains to yet more of the same, Storm Bram this time. Feels like it's been weeks since I've had any sun on my face and my SAD is back with vengeance. It feels like we're just living through near-perpetual darkness at the moment, all the fields and woodland walks have been turned into a sludgey hell and I'm already mentally counting down to the brighter, fresher, happier days of spring. Please tell me I'm not the only one?

And before anyone pipes up with that they actually enjoy this weather and how great it is for getting 'cosy' etc, surely you can't be serious?!

YABU - I love this type of weather
YANBU - I just want to hibernate till spring time

I'm also counting down to the solstice - even when it's dark and wet I feel better to know that things are improving.

I've been working from home so much more because I just can't bring myself to go out and travel to the office. I want to hibernate.

It’s the dark I hate. I swear it got darker in my bedroom this morning when I opened the blinds.

YANBU and all The Pollyannas on this thread can do one.

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Fed Up Dark Hater

I’m a dog walker and I do feel that if you tell yourself it’s awful, that’s how you feel.

The weather just ‘is’.
While I love the spring and summer, trying hard not to put a ‘value’ on the weather you don’t like, helps enormously.

Horizontal rain, strong winds and thick grey cloud here for weeks now.

I thought I'd woken up really early but no, it's going to stay this grey all day. It is seriously depressing.

The thing is it’s not “cosy”. It’s really mild! I like cold and dark, now that is the weather to hunker down or even enjoy a dusk walk. But rain, rain, rain and temperatures not unknown in August is getting me down.

The suns out in suffolk

"Like a PP I'm counting down to 21st December after which it gets a little bit lighter each evening.".

If it helps and for info whilst Dec 21st is the shortest day the earliest sunset happens a few days before that (around about the 12th, but the daily change is so minor that for practical purposes we're pretty much there today ).

By the time you get around to the 21st the evenings have already started to draw out...just..FWIW by about 2 minutes for London

Downside is that OTOH sunrise continues to be later until right at the end of Dec/start of Jan.

Grey and soggy. I'm basically in survival mode until March.

I don't mind dark or cold if it's dry, it's just the rain I'm sick of at present. Our garden is a quagmire, the fields are muddy and it's becoming difficult to give the dog a decent walk. For the first time ever, we've decided to get a dog coat because we're hardly getting a single dry day. I'd love it to be cold dry, snowy, I'm a winter person, I dread summer, but this relentless rain is getting boring.

I don’t love it, but equally it’s better than being dead (how I always cheer myself out of it!) I just think of all the people I know who’ve died in an untimely manner and think how much they’d like to be alive even in shit winter weather.

It has rained here for fucking weeks, I have had enough.

This morning I'm in a really bad mood about it!

I really struggle with the dark and grey.

Every year we have a similar thread and people bang on about snuggling and blankets and hot chocolate - it's not about the temperature, it's about the light. Or lack of light. It is grey and dull where I am today and the lights will be on all day.

People like to romanticise autumn and winter as crisp and bright, crunching through leaves and frost but we rarely get that.

YANBU. Hideous season with no redeeming qualities.

Don't mind the greyness or darkness that much, apart from when I can't go for a run at 3pm because it'll get pitch black in 20 minutes. The cold is intolerable though, and I include what DP hilariously called today's "mild" temperatures. Tell that to my misbehaving sinuses and Raynaud's syndrome. And as for the rain I just feel trapped inside in a way I never do in summer. Obviously I've heard of coats or hats - I still refuse to leave the house unless I absolutely have to, because they don't make the outdoors pleasurable. That's impossible.

God I hate winter! Booked myself a last-minute getaway to Portugal last month, enjoyed being warm a lot, came back and was so horrified by the British weather that I immediately booked myself another.

Spring is no better, it takes until at least May before the temperature becomes acceptable here.

Yes, summer SAD is a thing. I have it. I feel ill and depressed from late April to early September but June/July in particular has me struggling for survival with asthma, migraine and anxiety.

It’s grey and vaguely drizzly. But it’s not cold and it’s not windy.

Yesterday was a beautiful day. I went for a very long walk and wore a light long sleeved top. Had my coat and scarf with me but way too warm for that in the winter sunshine.

Had to go for a run later in the evening with my head torch on Saturday because the drizzle just wouldn’t let up which was annoying but better than not going at all.

My long walk a few days earlier required my serious rain coat, waterproof trousers, gaiters and my rain hat so I’m not saying it never rains or anything but we can arrange accordingly.

When it’s pelting it down it is harder to get out and stretch your legs and get places, do hobbies etc but I think it’s important we do get out and do things anyway. I know the kids are leaving for school in the dark and walking home in the dark which is depressing and the house is full of mud and the animals always need cleaning! But at least we can get outside and then snug again inside enjoying the warmth and light, albeit with more faff.

At least there's generally more sun in spring though, regardless of the temperature. Plus plenty to see that fills my heart with happiness, like lambs boinging around in fields, daffodils, ducklings on the river, bluebells in the woods, everything blooming back into life and feeling more vibrant and colourful.

It's my favourite time of year by far, whereas this time of year everything looks dull, dead and muddy.

I used to love December when it was crisp, cold, frosty mornings. Bright blue skies at the same time. Now it's warmer but with a lot of rain. Rarely see frosts any more, let alone the regular snowfalls we had in the 70s, 80s and 90s.

Agree @VaxMerstappen , spring is amazing. If I could live in perma-May I would be very happy.3

Oh spring definitely looks pretty, it fools me into skipping out into warm-looking sunshine then having to turn tail to wrap up in gloves/hat/scarf again (or just abandon my outing completely).

Autumn is the one that always surprises me - it's warmer for later than you think it is and every time there's a vaguely nice day I'm determined to make the most of it because I know winter's around the corner. Always have a nice autumn.

Temperature doesn't bother me, grey dark and soggy does. Being outside is just unpleasant.

I never understood why it's a White Christmas or a Green Christmas. It's not green, it's brown - mud, dead leaves, bare trees, soggy everything.

It seems to be just like the other 76 winters I have spent, except maybe when we lived abroad and occasionally had squeaky snow, proper snow as we call it still, the temperature is too low for it to melt and look dirty, it wore away like a thin road surface!

Nothing like the winters in the 90s/2000s. Post 2009-ish it got more like this, more regularly, and now every single Christmas is a hurricane and 12 degrees.

Well apart from December 2010 when it was absolutely freezing and the coldest edit December in about 100 years.