To be so sick of this rain

We had two days of sunshine, Monday and Tuesday, this week. Oh, what absolute joy!☀️. Then, today, grey overcast skies, a chilly wind and drizzle all day. We need sunshine 🙏.

Such dismal weather…rain 🌧️ ☔️ , rain and more rain.
My lovely young neighbour (only 54) has just been diagnosed with breast cancer. They are all devastated.
All in all, I feel quite sad 😢

Wednesday was glorious here, I felt like a human being again, the sun was so warm, but today was business as usual with the weather cold and windy and nothing but overcast skies. Have never known such consistently dreadful weather in Jan/Feb, I mean it’s never great but at least sometimes there would be drier sunnier spells even if the temps were cold.
It’s like somebody has forgotten to turn on the lights but left the taps running.

Excessive precipitation - rain or snow - would seem to have been a feature all over. Dd & co. were skiing in France recently - loads of snow and it snowed virtually all day, every day, plus I’ve read that there’s been a lot of flooding in France. Ditto in Portugal, according to a nephew who lives there, and not long ago in Mallorca.
Plus a Swedish friend I spoke to the other day said it had been snowing all day - again! Snow on snow on snow….
I felt a bit bad saying that it was sunny here - for once….

And America’s eastern areas lately, too. Sister who moved recently from Cape Cod to Tucson is undoubtedly feeling somewhat smug…

Actually if you look at the weather sites, at least here in the south east, the weather is day by day getting drier over the next couple of weeks. There may be rain but not so much of it. 😄

I've just returned from a week in Morocco, clear blue skies and a the temperature in the upper 20's. It's recharged me somewhat and it's dry here ATM so I feel able to face more rain, if we have it. On the plus side, it's been fairly mild and the garden is springing into life which always makes me feel optimistic.

It's Wales here - need I say more? #sighs

Added thing being - I'm from southern England and that means that often if I take a look out the door that I change my mind about going out. Yep....I still make all the same decisions I used to about going out - followed by a lot of "abort plan....abort...it's Wales here" anyway. So this winter has been a dire one for me...

there is an interesting celestial occurrence
tonight, the planets aligning.
However, despite us being able to view from high ground we would not see anything anyway through dense cloud, so disappointing.
Long range weather forecasts show no weather difference.
Tuesday and Wednesday in Oxford were Springlike and sunny, a brief respite, now
back to casseroles and the heating on.

SORES

there is an interesting celestial occurrence
tonight, the planets aligning.
However, despite us being able to view from high ground we would not see anything anyway through dense cloud, so disappointing.
Long range weather forecasts show no weather difference.
Tuesday and Wednesday in Oxford were Springlike and sunny, a brief respite, now
back to casseroles and the heating on.

Brilliant sunshine in Perth today so hoping to see it all.

In Victoria we are really short of rain. Funny old world.

crazyH

Such dismal weather…rain 🌧️ ☔️ , rain and more rain.
My lovely young neighbour (only 54) has just been diagnosed with breast cancer. They are all devastated.
All in all, I feel quite sad 😢

Puts the «problem» of the weather into perspective though doesn’t it?

We had sunshine one day earlier in the week, I was so excited!

Now here we are, back to grey dull weather, with rain all last night!

I’m fed up with the rain, I’ll be more fed up when in the summer the water companies impose a “hosepipe” ban because 1) they’ve not had the foresight to build more reservoirs 2) Use their profits for shareholder bonuses instead of fixing leaks in pipes.

In summary, OP, no, you’re not being unreasonable

Apart from one or two days of sunshine the last two months have been dismal. Grey sky and constant rain.

More depressing rain to come, at least in the South East.We’ll be getting webbed feet soon.

I am in the S E, I am looking out onto a dark grey sky with rain in the air roll on spring (meteorological spring starts this Sunday) and summer 🙏🏻

Devon was bright today, just a few showers.
Tomorrow looks like a bumper sunny day. 🌞

SallyWally1 This is what it's been like where I live:

Based on data from the University of Reading, January 2026 was not the wettest January since records began, but it was exceptionally wet and set other records.

Here are the key details for your area as of early February 2026:

Ranking: January 2026 was the fourth-wettest January in almost 120 years of data, with 121 mm of rainfall recorded at the University of Reading.

Previous Records: Only January 1939, 1995, and 2014 were wetter in that 120-year period.

Record-Breaking Spell: While not the highest total, January 2026 set a new record for the longest unbroken spell of daily rain, with 25 consecutive days of rain, beating the previous 1934 and 1970 records.

Context: For the 29 days beginning 6 January, 135 mm of rain fell in the area—more than double the expected amount for that period.
University of Reading

While it was not the absolute wettest in terms of total volume, the relentlessness of the rain made it an historic, standout month for the area.

In one week, where we had rain here every day and no sunshine, my friend in Essex, where I moved from 2.5 years ago, said she had had sunshine and managed to dry her washing outside 3 days that week! Why did I move?!!! (I moved to be near my daughter and her family).

Wish you could send some here. We are having a drought here in Great Brak River and have put a bucket in the shower and use the 'grey water' for my plants but fighting a losing battle. My prized olive trees are looking very unhappy. Oh dear, what can a person do?

It’s not just the rain it’s the bloody grey sky all the time. I’m not a conspiracy nut by any means but it just doesn’t seem normal.

We are desperate for rain here in the Midlands in South Africa. Rain would be such a blessing.

Is it terrible when you have a dog that needs to go out every day and is perpetually covered in mud. I’ve now got back problems from having to wash him every day and I’m paying out to see a chiropractor so this rain, relentless rain is actually costing me money.

I too do not love the frequent rain and mud - but actually when I think that I am safe, have a roof over my head, food in the fridge......can see trees and daffodils........and there are people facing war, homelessness, hunger, grief........I look at it differently. I have been sent this sentence : " There are at least a billion people in the world who would swap their life with yours in a heart beat". I do understand that grey skies can be depressing - I am not immune - but........

Skallywag

Is it terrible when you have a dog that needs to go out every day and is perpetually covered in mud. I’ve now got back problems from having to wash him every day and I’m paying out to see a chiropractor so this rain, relentless rain is actually costing me money.

Get a rainproof coat for him, then you just need to clean legs and paws.

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