To be despairing at the rain

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It’s just so miserable. We never ever seem to just get a few days of rain, once it starts it goes on for weeks or even months at a time. We are on day 14 of rain with very little let up, high winds and this shit is forecast to go on for another 3 solid weeks if the Met Office is right.

I have small children and a dog and my life seems to be cleaning pram wheels, washing the dog’s feet, trying to wrangle my kids into/out of wet weather gear, and running between places trying not to get completely soaked. The mud is awful and gets everywhere. It’s making my house smell.

I just find it so depressing

I'm the same today and had the exact same thought while I was pushing my pram just to get some fresh air and trying to stop the rain cover from blowing away.

No doubt the puddle suit brigade will be along soon to talk about the joys of jumping in puddles thought whereas in reality it kills about 10 minutes and where I live we get horizontal rain that even the most outdoorsy toddler would hate.

Yeah it’s bloody miserable and very hard to stay cheery. It’s only on Mumsnet people like this shitty weather

Never in real life have I heard someone say ‘I’m really pleased it’s been raining for weeks with no endin sight’

Solidarity. I am hugely sick of it. We live in Cornwall and it has been incessant this January. The roof is leaking and I can't get anyone to come and look at it because all the roofers are working on fixing storm damage for other people.
I am past the pram stage of life, but I have so much sympathy for those of you parenting little kids in this.

The puddlesuit brigade are imaging a gentle shower while a delighted toddler jumps into a fairly sterile puddle, ducks quacking in the background.

Right now we have horizontal rain, high winds which have felled most of the small trees and unattached objects on our road, flooding in the lowland areas and the rivers have mostly burst their banks. Its so noisy I probably won’t be able to sleep.

Anyone telling me to enjoy it by putting puddlesuits on the kids can fuck off!

I’m probably not far from you! Do you have the high winds right now as well? We’re under constant weather warnings and it’s just one storm after the next.

Yep, we’ve had about 10 days of clear weather since august bank holiday weekend. Non consecutively….

Urgh yes.
its not yet as bad as the year before last when I counted 8 months of almost solid rain.

Yes, high winds here too. It is miserable. I thought you might be local to me from your OP. Totally sick of it.

I remember that! It rained solidly and relentlessly for about 4 months, then a few weeks off, then another 4 months of rain. I was despairing - I had newborn DS, toddler DD and a youngish dog. I relied on park/walks but they were absolutely miserable and needed so much planning/effort. I wish I could emigrate tbh

We got 17" of snow yesterday in Ohio. It's 11° F (-11° C). It's sunny, though. 😉

I'm in London so it's not nearly so bad, but I'm also sick of the rain. It really sucks when you've got small kids, just makes everything 100 times harder than it is in dry weather.

Are you on the west coast by any chance? I grew up on the west coast and your description is bringing back memories.

It's almost always bone try over here in the East, and just a little bit of rain sometimes at the moment. If you fancy a couple of days in Great Yarmouth, you're in with a decent chance.

On Friday we had a day out all day and we were forecast 70% chance of "single rain drops" on the BBC. We were out all day in the park and it didn't rain at all.

I wish I had known the east was like this when I growing up rain-soaked in the west.

Yes, west coast. I’ve lived here all my life so am used to it but truly, the last 5 or so years have been exceptionally bad - much much worse than normal. It’s quite normal now to have 30+ days of solid rain with zero let up, and the storms are far more frequent than I remember.

The wind seems to have been non stop, even last summer when it was dry. The combination of wind and rain is infinitely depressing.

It's just miserable isn't it. It makes me feel like crap looking out of the window.
My hair is a frizzy mess, the dog is leaving dirty paw prints everywhere, the kids are like drowned rats walking home from school, I'm drying puffa jackets on radiators every night. Their school shoes are soaking wet as well! There's wet clothes in all the laundry baskets as I can't wash them fast enough and dirty dog towels spread all over the utility room floor to try and soak up some of the wet dog! It's cold, windy, costing a bomb in gas and electric and just all round horrible!!!

You Southern softies 😜

love from Scotland xx

Just back from a miserable wet Spain. So not just here.
It is winter. We have seasons. It rains.
Saw some daffodils today. Spring is not far off. Try and be happy and put things into perspective.

It rains every season now.

I hate to say it, because I do get you, but I think it's due to climate change and going to get worse...

Rain is one thing, but when it's followed by sunshine it's not bad. It's the endless grey skies for days on end that get me down. We haven't had a single ray of sunshine for weeks now. Even when the rain stops, the cloud is still thick and dark hanging over us and blocking out the light.

YANBU, though as I have a broken foot and am confined to working from home and not even able to do the school run at the moment, I’m looking outside the window and feeling a little bit of schadenfreude at the relentlessly bad weather!

Completely understand.

I'm grateful to be past the pram stage as that's just more stuff to get dry!

I'm finding the unpredictability hard. We've had sports matches cancelled and rearranged endlessly to try and keep leagues and things going - with 3 dc this leads to horrible clashes and short notice scrambles that I could really do without.

Dd's geography field trip which they need to do for their GCSE was abandoned and is proving hard to reschedule.

I juts want to be able to put stuff in the diary and know it will happen!

We go to a weekly outdoor playgroup on Tuesdays and even that’s cancelled tomorrow because of the rain.

It is horrible. I am struggling to know what to do with my toddler; I don’t like soft play much but it does kind of feel like the only option some afternoons!)

Not where I live in UK. We had a lovely summer last year !