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

That’s your personal observation which isn’t backed by evidence - things are getting milder and wetter

I guess you are alike a boiled frog - you don’t notice what’s happening around you

Yes I remember that one, we had weeks of snow.

Of course we’ve always had wetter, windier, milder winters, and every winter has had periods of this weather. But honestly even when pushing aside rose tinted romanticism, I remember at least half of winter as being frosty, with temperatures hovering around zero or slightly above. Probably a few flurries of snow, a couple of inches.

Now it does nothing but rain, that’s the difference.

It's wet, grey, and dark with the shortest days coming up. Christmas keeps me going. January's worse x

A bit windy, dark and rain. Actually quite warm, temperatures well above what you would expect for this time of year,15C where I am. That means the heating is off.

I like the contrast. Cold in winter and warm in summer. And yes the warm weather whingers who are out in force the minute the temperature gauge goes above 20C declaring it "intolerably hot" are pretty annoying after a long and grey winter.

Just been out running in it. Heaven. I get a nice cool shower as I go and I love getting home all wet, muddy and stinky and heading for a nice hot shower!

Newsflash. Its Winter. What do you expect.

It’s shite. Belting down with rain here and about 60mph wind.

Bring on the bastard boiling heatwaves. Does my arthritis a world of good, unlike this shite, wet and cold and windy weather.

It has been a particularly wet autumn. The third wettest since records began in 1836 in Ireland, the tenth wettest in Wales.

I usually go camping (in the van) in early April, under about 3 duvets at night with the temperature hovering around zero 😆

We seem to be getting one day of sun and the next chucking it down.
Spent all day in the garden yesterday doing a winter tidy up. Was lovely and sunny.
Today is windy, wet and really dark.

Not hurricanes 24/7.

Nice for those who have the free time!

Yes where are all the summer haters? Happy now?!

Grey dark and wet. It’s not even cold
but weirdly muggy. Yes the cold clear frosty weather is lovely but we don’t get that now do we.

How anyone could prefer this to the beauty of early summer I will never understand. Certifiable.

What is very popular and works for me is a winter holiday to the sun to break up the dreary miserable months until spring .

It's winter 🤷‍♀️ and will start getting lighter again in less than two weeks. It's pretty mild here at the moment and I'm having my heating on less so it's costing me less.

It's grim. The daylight is awful and means I can't see anything even with the lights on. The 40 mph winds seem to be a weekly or fortnightly thing over winter these days and I'm fairly sure that's a relatively new thing. We have a leak and therefore strong driving winds and rain really ramp up my anxiety - it's hard to feel cosy in a house when you're constantly checking the leak.

I don't prefer it, but to everything a season. We need a downtime, same as all the plants.

Exactly. Perhaps OP would prefer thick snow and ice.

Recently I’ve seen footage of devastating floods, many people killed, in Asia. Especially having lived in Middle Eastern deserts for many years, I’m just grateful that our weather is relatively moderate, and we don’t have earthquakes or raging wildfires to reckon with.

I could have written this post. I hate it, it’s miserable, relentless and SO depressing. I have dogs that need walking and they hate it too. I have arthritis that flares in this weather. Bring on the 21st. I would move south somewhere sunny if I could! Sending virtual hugs I hear you, IT IS GRIM!

I would, yes.

Or I would just settle for 4 degrees and crisp with a nightly frost.

I don't know where you are but in very tip of SE England we've had a lovely time with only a few rainy and grey days/few hours of grey and rain. Cold snap a week or so ago but most days this week seem to be still sunny and 10 degrees!

You’re best placed that’s why. Try being on the SW peninsula. It’s like something from Father Ted and had been for weeks now.

Yes, seem to be in our own micro-climate down here. When I first moved here I remember thinking it always seemed to be sunnier than it did when I was more central and I saw a report to that effect. I was more worried that it's usually 4 degrees this year and it being 10 is a bit alarming tbh.

Or in western Scotland.