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 find it quite cosy. We live in a house in the countryside which is very exposed, and we have no loft upstairs so the wind and rain is quite obvious when it's battering the house and we're laid in bed. We call it cave weather.

I don’t mind it. I go out for walks in all weathers and the Christmas season makes up for the misery with the weather. By mid February I’m dragging myself around utterly miserable though. I hate January and February.

I wish I could feel this way but the days are so short. It's the early darkness and the rain that get me, if it would just get dark a bit later and be a bit drier, we've had weeks of grey rainy weather. I don't mind the cold. Actually now I've said all that I think it's the rain that's the worst, days and days of it.

I don't mind the rain so much, it usually doesn't rain all day (with the exception of last Sunday, when the rain actually didn't stop all day until the evening). I have a reasonable amount of control over my working schedule, and find I feel a lot better if I manage to get out for a half hour walk at least in a 'dry' window.

But the darkness 😣. Can't stand the days when it's dark at 3pm. Some days recently, it hasn't brightened up at all. It's like living in some awful grey nether world.

Sorry lovey, very observant, just a pity I don't toe the acceptable MN line. Someone recalled 2010 upthread, the year we'd just moved here, it was horrendous, though to fit the mantra let's call it a statistical outlier, like 2018 or 19 when we were stranded on top of a snowdrift in the village where the wind had blown the snow across the road and we had to be towed out.

Given that my heating failed, I'm grateful it hasn't been frosty. The pump is being replaced as I type so it can do whatever it likes now.

OP, go for a walk through countryside. It is never as bad as you imagine.

You’re not rural are you?

Yes, why?

Because it absolutely is 100% that bad.

Dry walk - put on shoes and coat, leave house. Walk, come home, take shoes and coat off.

Walking after 5 solid days of rain - get everyone into wet weather clothes, wellies, puddlesuits. Go for walk through 3 inches of mud, one of the kids usually falls over and starts crying. Get home soaked, run dog through house to back garden, strip kids off, shove clothing in washing machine, run back to garden to shampoo dog who has a very thick coarse coat and rolls is everything going. Run back instead soaked again from the rain, grab towel, grab hairdryer, dry off dog who also shakes all over the house. Dog locked in kitchen until dry. Mop all the muddy and wet footprints up, wipe down wellies, also any furniture she has covered by shaking.

See the difference?

I haven’t voted because neither option fits with what I’m thinking.
Yes we’ve had some grim weather, some boring. But it’s been Autumn and now winter. Tis what it is. Spring will arrive etc.
Honestly if all you’ve got to moan about is that it’s a bit cold, wet and dull, count your blessings.

I think I read that harsher winters (more snow) are also indicative of of climate catastrophe as well as hot hot summers. Ditto months and months with very little rain followed by torrential downpours.

It’s grey and breezy but not wet so far in my part of Suffolk.

I’ve been spring cleaning the house and built a chest of drawers. Hoping to get a few garden jobs done if weather allows.