miserable pissy rain

Yes, I'm a bitch. I don't care.

does this shit intend on stopping any time soon

ha i just finished watching the weather forecast

no, by the looks of things, although the current mid-atlantic squall over london should be the nadir

i really enjoyed the most miserably intense bit of it earlier because i was in bed with my laptop warming me watching leveson and with no need to leave the house, but even from this cosy perspective the sheer unstopping relentlessness of it becomes depressing

yeah sturm und drang is always best appreciated from indoors

from tomorrow it's back to the last fortnight's enervating Miserable Pissy Rain

I hated the most miserably intense bit because I was out walking in it.

I got stuck in a spring rain at lunch, with blocks to go. My hair is well and truly fucked for the rest of the day, I think.

misread the thread title

"Scissorable Missy Rain"?

how'd you guess?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9c/Princepurplerain.jpg
I only want to see you dancing
in the miserable pissy rain.
Pissy rain,
pissy rain...
Pissy rain,
pissy rain...

lol

no-one made the obvious (esp re Prince) joke about "pussy rain" i see

Pussy comes in waterfalls. We all know this.

When we first moved in here - in fact the day Neil Young was on TV playing in Hyde Park - we had the most fucking awful downpour that caused the trough on top of the bay window to fill with water and pour into the living room. We spent the evening with towels and buckets trying to mop up the stuff before it got in the electrics. We've had it fixed since obv. but every time it's rained since I've been really terribly anxious. This week hasn't been great.

We nearly went to that NY gig - after seeing Springsteen bring the place down the night before. If we had, we've come back to the worst mess I can imagine. I'm even still anxious about Neil Young's music.

Fucking April. Though. That was August. Fucking rain.

i'm meant to go out now and the rain has stopped but i am looking beseechingly at my bed, pleading with it to FORCE me into it

Anyone else think they might go postal simply due to the sheer relentlessness of the weather?

Had to bin my London Olympics umbrella (£14 from M&S), which is coming apart from constant use in the last few weeks.

i'm philosophically resigned to the fact that the rain is overdue but i'm still stuck in the house going quietly spare

I pretty much don't leave the house except to drive to work so I quite like the rain, anything that postpones having to mow the lawn is a good thing in my book.

urrrrgh

The main problem is that I've found that my mental health is so much better if I set myself the challenge of a longish London walk on a Sunday, e.g. Vauxhall to Hampstead Heath, via Soho, Fitzrovia, Regents Park and Swiss Cottage and back via Haverstock Hill.

But it's not pleasant in this weather and the last few weekends have been ridiculous: sheltering from hard and cold hail on Hampstead Heath, taking shelter with wet trousers from a sudden torrential downpour in a bookshop in Primrose Hill etc...

hmm..I could have phrased that last bit better.

the last 24 hrs or so have been a nadir but it looks like next week will be alright (in the southeast anyway)

got really sick of the constant dampness in the air even in the interludes when it hasnt been raining

otm. i've had visitors staying with me this weekend and wanted to take them out walking..it's really the only way i know to show off london. sucky weather.

omg constant rain since i woke up, sky doesn't look like it's going to clear up anytime either.

but yeah, forecast looks sweet for the week ahead.

Last night was about the most unpleasant weather I can remember ever experiencing.

Miserable Pissy Rain was AMAZING EXCITING RAIN when I was down in Cornwall, because it's so clean and energising and beautiful and makes the WAVES! SMASH! in exciting ways.

But by the time it gets to London, it's just grim.

Apparently I missed a Force 9 Gale last night - gutted - but everyone said I was lucky to get out before trees started coming down and things.

Yeah, I'm not knocking rain..just the continuous miserable pissy kind. I've had some great walks just after storms, when it's still raining, but the sun's back out and everything is sparkling, almost psychedelically, and the greenery and trees feels more alive.

But this is a kind of cold, miserly depresso rain with dull skies.

Apparently the Cornish word for this weather is actually "mizzle"

But wait! I just saw a ray of sun!

Oh no - is it another false dawn? ("I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand")

sunny here in hackney

when is it not

raining non stop in Manchester for the last 4 days straight. i'm not a huge fan of the sun as such, but even i'm starting to feel like these dudes
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/16/21241205_5253206c4e.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qg2QTQKpCAI/TJn_4kjiCjI/AAAAAAAACEc/R0BBB_qTOSo/s1600/rain04.jpg

http://brightcove.vo.llnwd.net/d8/unsecured/media/47628790001/47628790001_60668723001_5099922767950-01-001-still.jpg?pubId=47628790001

http://i2.listal.com/image/1665959/600full-blade-runner-screenshot.jpg

(basically I love torrential rain in a big city, because I can pretend that I'm an extra in Blade Runner)

I'll bet you walk around with your neon umbrella don't you

It's back (after various alarms and excursions in the UK media about an alleged drought).

Just came back in from a walk outside during a brief let up in the rain.

Basically it's going to rain continously throughout Christmas, and you're going to be stuck. inside. with. your. family. for. days. UUURGHRGHH.

hoping it rains so much between now and tomorrow that the entire railway line between london and the sticks collapses and i am unable to get home at all

Train passengers have been urged not to travel in parts of south-west England due to problems caused by heavy rain.

not to travel further west than Taunton

BOLLOCKS not far enough

Fucking slashing it down in Manchester, and has been all day. Made a trip to the recycling centre with a carload of old skirting boards and bags of hardened plaster/rubble a real treat, I can tell you.

yeah I'm near Manchester (warrington) and been raining all day. I don't mind it too much, it's very warm right now though so might go for a walk in the drizzle.

This must be the wettest year ever

Er, Bob, do you work for the Daily Mail? We were in a drought until it starting raining lots. Funny that.

We were in a potential water collection and distribution problem.

Achieving a 'drought' in the water-logged British Isles is basically a plea for incompetency and long-term under-investment by the water infrastructure bodies.

Jesus Christ will this ever end? I can't remember a time when it wasn't raining. Got to go further south west tomorrow...

I think you answered my question Bob. But you are right it's not a "drought" by other countries definitions.

My solution? Just use less water. I can't believe how wasteful some people, and by extension I’m sure Industry, can be.

Put a brick in your toilet.

I do that every sunday morning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MicuK_tgXqg

It was drier in Newcastle!

Thanks to miserable pissy rain since yesterday, J. gets 3 days off!

Cold pissy rain falling on the snow still on the ground as the blackbirds take over my yard.

i know it's winter, but this weather has got to fucking go.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/dec/31/wettest-year-ends-with-downpours

2012 can fuck right off

What gets to me isn't the rain, but how dark it is in the mornings when it rains like this, even at 10 o'clock.

Wettest December and January ever...

Warmest too?

yeah in london there has been only one day this winter that didn't reach 5c by my recollection

so long as you didn't have a tree fall on your house/car and you don't live right next to a river it's not been a bad winter

It's been bloody cold out here in the sticks. Only a few days with actual ice, but the combo of wind and rain has been very unpleasant.

so long as you didn't have a tree fall on your house/car and you don't live right next to a river it's not been a bad winter

Depends what you're looking for really. As a cyclist, I could really do without the endless rain and gale force winds. I'd happily take temperatures 3 degrees lower if it meant blue skies and no wind.

swings and roundabouts huh

admittedly im not into outdoorsy type shit but there hasnt been a total lack of sunlight, in between the rainshowers

its not been constant rain, just that when it has rained it has rained really fucking heavily

it's yet another freakish winter though, like last year's which went on until april, another sense that the climate is going to shit and thank fuck i dont own a house on the somerset levels

April 2012-April 2013 was the most miserable year's worth of weather imaginable. The last couple of months or so have been pretty shit (obviously worse down in the south-west), but I haven't given up hope that it's going to get better. One day.

the climate change predictions for northwest europe dont seem that consistent, some suggesting cooler some suggesting that it will just be like taking 5 degrees of latitude away so we get warmish weather while spain turns into algeria

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/72975000/jpg/_72975037_021079372-1.jpg

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/72965000/jpg/_72965159_021072732-1.jpg

apparently those earthbanks didn't stop the water getting in:

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2014/02/even-this-mans-10k-fortress-cant-defend-his-home-from-flooding/

in the comments there (suicideneil) there are some pictures of people in america doing the same thing

'i come from a rain planet'

'did you like it there?'

'we didn't know any better'

Bank Holiday: workers' playday washout in London.

Play inside.

Aargh

soggy

Aargh, again.....I'm impatient for Spring to start properly here in London.

soggy again

first cricket match of the season today, so of course

so many Bank Holiday options

I've gone back to 'pretending I'm an extra in Blade Runner' mode.

(x-post)

Good to put a few moments aside to celebrate the dignity of labour on International Workers Day

http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa175/Inoljt/taiwan-may-1-international-workers-day-demonstrations-protests-08-600x400.jpg

she looks like how i feel about going to the shops right now

I have enjoyed the light rain this morning, walking across the fields to the shop. then there was an opening and clear blue skies for 10 minutes, then the rain came back

Later, the tour de yorkshire is passing through here

are there any custom ales for the tour?

I havent seen any custom ales!

I just saw a large group of people walk down the lane to the main road, it looks like the cyclists are coming through in 30 minutes time

I miss cycling in yorkshire, even in the rain. an old friend of mine brewed something for when the tour de france started in yorks but idk if this would merit an ale

Well obv a miserable pissy rain thread would have to have a Yorkshire related revive! I actually love rain myself. Alls you need is a £20 trespass jacket and some headphones and rain isn't very miserable at all although sometimes I admit if it becomes too prolonged it would be nice to rent some of it out to the State of California or something.

I'm suprised to learn that where i am (very) briefly staying, is in the extreme south of your electoral seat. I see there was a major boundary redraw in 2010

MISERABLE TO WHO? I QUITE LIKE A BIT OF RAIN SO STICK TO THE FACTS

nigel blackwell didn't have a cricket match that day

love rain

Come precipitate

ew

cricket probably more interesting if played during torrential downpours

more interesting and much more unpleasant to play

nakh's all watching through a telescope from the attic though, chuckling

interestingly, there's maybe the most interesting match England or the West Indies (ShariVari's team) have played in a year or two coming to a potentially thrilling conclusion today, yall should tune in

recently on ILX Dreams...

i'll see you online

what is that cricket satidum where ppl watch from their roofs? edgbaston maybe

sounds like trent bridge? lemme check

xxxxxp
Bloody hell is Anvil in Grange Moor?

way further south than that!

> MISERABLE TO WHO? I QUITE LIKE A BIT OF RAIN SO STICK TO THE FACTS

Wasn't it DRIZZLE?

i got no ish with a bit of drizzle but it was scything down here yesterday morning

tbf it turned sunny later but i am feeling too delicate to venture out just yet

what is that cricket satidum where ppl watch from their roofs? edgbaston maybe

― nakhchivan, Sunday, May 3, 2015 4:40 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

think you mean the oval btw.

this is it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBuwv-FbIIs

Soggy again.

I walked two miles while it was wazzing down this morning. I've got waterproof boots, but they're only properly waterproof from the bottom up. From the top down the rain gets in eventually. Also I was wearing a waterproof jacket but the rain got through the zip at the front, and waterproof trousers, but the bottoms of the jeans I was wearing underneath got damp.

the good thing is, it's raining on a work da-

fuck

Had a good walk round Soho and the light rain seemed to a good accompaniment to contemplating how much it is changing. You can't beat a gloomy rainy Sunday for slightly melancholic nostalgia.

had a nice time not going outside today

fuck off winter, you've had your turn

lost my regatta waterproof at a festival right at the beginning of the summer and i can't afford a new one. hate umbrellas.

Is this summer as wet elsewhere than here? I hadn't heard. Seems to have rained much more than sunshined.
& it just keeps relapsing my cold/flu/whatever which has me feeling like I'm bobbing think it always triggers some level of vertigo. Lovely.

But at least all the shrubbery is getting watered regularly. So everything is looking green. THough I do think it needs both heat and light to really do that well.

Noticed a couple of weeks ago that in previous years by that point i was reduced to having to sleep under a duvet less duvet cover to keep cool enough to sleep. I'm still under a full duvet this year and have been cold under that. I know people who've had to put the heat on too. Hope August understands the u and non-u of summer weather behaviour better than July has.
Is this the beginning of another ice Age?

It's like 2008 again.

ah come on, it's been two days of bad weather after a really good summer. the forecast is for sun again tomorrow.

don't remember '08 summer so well..? was it bad? 2011 or whatever year Take Shelter came out was bad. I remember because the day after I saw that film, it rained and then it rained non stop for weeks.

LG is right though - we've had some decent days of sunshine. Kids shouldn't get a school holiday IMO, it brings the rain.

2011 was weird over here, or at leas t in North West mayo where i spent most of it. April was so dry that there were gorse fires at the end of it. Didn't rain for 2 1/2 or 3 weeks then it started raining possibly in early May and seemed to keep it up solidly from then on. Probably was dry for some periods but not for long. I spent a lot of the time in places taht I couldn't really get too warmed up Just try to change into dry clothing.

I wound up coming down from up there wearing 2 fleeces and a pair of leather jeans feeling it was about right for the heat, but also because most of my clothing was being washed. Hit Galway and it was actually pretty warm so i was overhot.
Nopt sure how weather compared between the 2 locations at other times,, I do think there was flooduing in various places at times though.

Doesn't feel like it's been a good summer in the South West. Feels like 2008. I think 2009 was bad too. Last summer and the one before were good, I think. July's been very cold.

I've been wearing long trousers in the evenings which is practically unheard of before September.

I was in East Lothian all of last week and the weather was mostly fine, rising to sweltering at times

Record high July temperatures measured in the first couple of weeks, btw - short memories on display here

I was wondering if there was a difference elsewhere than here,. I think it rained a lot at that time, certainly is now. BUt I did think I was hearing better things from elsewhere including the East coast of the country and definitely France.

The one weekend I remember it being super hot we were in Sussex for a wedding.

Friday was relentless. Sunday just kept starting and stopping in this v annoying fashion with a bit of sun for about five mins.

Weather has followed up to Edinburgh. Needed cheering up I guess.

I think the bourgeoisie over here must own the weather bureau. The first day of Race Week suddenly sees the weather become summery. I'm quite disgusted.
But at least I do now have the meds for flu recovery so things might just look up shortly.

Shitty weather I hate you
Why can't it just be sunny and pleasantly warm for 4 months

windy. serpentine was a bit parky this morning. septemberish feeling.

Felt like late September on my commute this morning; wore a jacket and everything.

One thing I've noticed in past weeks about Edinburgh is this, at times, really really light drizzle, bordering on non-existent but just enough to notice.

This week is just shit - haven't taken my coat and lost my umbrella on Sunday.

Back to rain again. So hopefully race people will get wet.

Could use some fucking rain around these parts to cool off these unending 30-degree days - got about 10 minutes worth on Saturday morning, the only rain in the last two weeks

You can have ours if you want to collect it.

just about to take a few mile trek on the tops and it is drizzly and changeable, this hardcore rain-walker don't take no shit from jive-ass h20.

Clearly a bit churlish to complain here in London, when others have had to contend with extensive flooding, but it is a bit relentless today.

has been relentless for several days here in the s/w.
lights on during so called daylight hours.
cannot remember such an extended dark/miserable/grey/wet period.
everyday i thank the lords of opportunity that my wife made us buy a house on a hill ..

should probably thank your wife imo

ditto mark e (we are in the same city I think), my OH always makes us live up a hill

First extended period both of us off work with the baby, wish we could've made more of it. He's happy with the swings though.

http://f.cl.ly/items/0R2d2p2K1F2C250C2z42/Untitled.png
facebook is baiting me

moving out in a week or two, but going on holiday tomorrow and we have rain leaking into the house, pouring from ceiling to floor down the walls, dripping from the kitchen ceiling, flooding the outside courtyard. I'm terrified I come home and find my stuff waterlogged.

ugh. Is someone watching the place so they can at least move stuff if it gets worse?

I'm going to move anything precious to another room. landlord is hopefully sending someone over to look at the house while we're away.

Ugh, I just walked a circuit from Holborn Nationwide to the little Waitrose and back home again, in a Barbour, and got home absolutely wringing wet.

shit DL that is terrible. Has it happened before?

miserable pissy rain torrential downpour

5degC and pissy miserable rain in the morning ugh :( winter in Melbourne can suck arse sometimes.

shit

I just opened this thread and it started to rain :(

aw man what did you want to go and do that for

Soggy again.

A hint of sunshine would have been nice.

classic reliving my youth. standing in the rain waiting for a bus going to a party in the miserable pissy rain. beer in plastic bags. first bus shoots past. bus a back street stopper. going to walk home for three hours later just to go the full proust.

Soggy again.

just played a full 90 in this

holy shitballs, Batman
(sudden torrential downpour just came out of nowhere during a 24 dec C day)

See what happens when you complain about it being too hot?

rain is good, it tests our new gutters

naturally they are failing the test, at the same mysterious place they always fail

We haven't all got gutters that need testing, mark. Or do we?

one__day_a_real_rain_taxi-driver.gif

Feeling a bit foolish giving out materials I prepared for my students' trip to Cambridge tomorrow which tell them all about punting down the river, sitting in the parks and an open-air swimming pool.

bordeaux is deluged.

donc la deluge

Although I have forgotten what donc means if it means anything at all.

put a donc on it

Some anthropologists reckon there are a few different words for miserable pissy rain in Doncaster.

Oh right, I thought we were the only people getting this while everybody else got a heatwave.
Well, keeps the country green I guess. & what would the alternative be?
Galway wouldn't look as nice as a desert.

A couple of months back I looked out of the window to see some weird mist like thing happening outside which I couldn't see the reason for. Found out that a couple of weeks without rain had lead to gorse fires out in Connemara direction. Was far more noticeable in town apparently, I just got this weird mist/fog thing.
So better not to have that repeating i guess.

today manchester has been overcast, with occasional light spitting rain, and pleasantly cool. I could go for a bit of mist though

I love the rain and moderate temperatures. There was a wave of violent assaults here during the hot spell and there always is, because people go fucking mental in the heat. One of the violent assaults occurred on one of my dog-walking routes and the perp's description was a dead-ringer for me (well 90% of violent crime is probably done by old white baldy males) and he had his dog with him as well. I'm just just glad it was a Spaniel and not a Black Labrador, lest I end up like Peter Fonda in The Wrong Bald Bastard.

It's true that Britain and Ireland are very green, I like this.

the time i interviewed george benson at the london hilton in the late 80s he said the exact same (except not about ireland)

horsing it down in london

I think it is the hilly/mountainous terrain of places like The North and southern Eire that I like, as well as the rain. I was having this conversation with my bro coming back from London t'other week. Places that are flat as a pancake in the UK don't quite feel like home when you are a hillbilly.

Slashing down here. Just got in after walking back from the bus stop. Summer!

calzino massively otm!

The day it rained forever

relentless...Bank Holiday Sunday special.

perfect 👌

Fuck this shit

Seriously.

Worst June evah.

And I can't even really blame Britain for it since it's raining in almost all the other places I've lived.

I made the mistake of wading through a field of very long grass the other day, might as well have gone swimming with my clothes on.

Total shit and worse in London thanks to the brain genius who thought putting glass squares in pavement in a city as wet as London was a great idea.

(Yes I am aware these were for under street lighting or w/e, don’t @ me when they make a good slice of pavement unusable in wet weather)

I picked this week to take some of my annual leave - no particular occasion, just needed a bit of time off before the three months of chaos and stress aka harvest; was just gonna bum around outside cafés reading - and it hasn’t stopped shitting it down for a minute the whole time

Fuck this fucking shit

(xxp) Doesn't rain that much in London tbf. Said the Scotch to the Irish.

eldest son's taking me to Bruges tomorrow for Father's Day, forecast is more fucking rain

warmer than here tho

Wailing against a rainy backdrop both strengthens and weakens my goth credentials but I have to say I prefer the cool dampness of a mausoleum to the sensation of drowning on terra firma.

I've never been to Bruges but during my visit to Brussels I fully understood why the Walloons and Normans have a special word for heavy rain: 'la drache' (pronounced 'drash').

rain is good not bad, also it is sunny now, london pavements are some slippy shit whatever they're made of (apparently* it's the piss)

*i read this on the internet

It was sunny just now for five minutes. Fuck this shit.

so far this is p normal june, it always mainly rains, SMDH everyone skreeking every summer that this is the only bad summer ever

ungood weather for my cat to go missing in

Anyone who knows their Wimbledon forthnight knows this is fairly normal fare.

I think the light has been a touch worse and it has been a touch colder than usual.

xp = oh no! :-(

:(

2xp

Err, 1xp (that was for ogmor, obviously).

so far this is p normal june, it always mainly rains, SMDH everyone skreeking every summer that this is the only bad summer ever

― mark s, Friday, 14 June 2019 11:14 (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah. i've definitely spoken of the new june monsoon season before somewhere

hopefully ogmor's cat will rock up and bring the sun along too

The last two Junes have been incredible weather-wise so they've lulled us into a false sense of security. It's usually pissing it down.

where "incredible" means hot and horrible, keep that nasty stuff out of my lovely month

fascism knifecrime island but at least it rains a lot

I long for 30°+.

here it was written: Is this the worst (britishes) summer ever?

the last two junes have bucked the trend but it was a trend

It’s always humid as fuck here when it’s hot though and it’s disgusting

hot is bad, when is the gulf stream conveyor turning off, fuck brexit i want hard glaciation

be nice with huge anoxic stinking pond next to us!

mad for it

I'm probably getting mixed up with what happened in the permian "best summer ever" period there, but shutdown of thermohaline circulation probably would cause areas of anoxic death in the atlantic, but maybe not that bad.

at least wins would get a good long break from these pesky harvests as well!

back to the egg:

https://assets.sutori.com/user-uploads/image/a848c5dc-4d1a-48d3-b816-26e8af82efad/a1acbed0e130f8853f8a3905891ceed8.jpeg

Hovering between -15 and -30 for months on end teaches you to embrace the jungle. 30+ becomes desirable even when it's humid out.

after spending the morning imagining my cat bedraggled and forlorn or worse I cycled home at lunch to find her meowing up a ruckus outside. she then did this celebration wriggle

http://imgur.com/pT339za
http://imgur.com/qXrmj2l

Boo

https://i.imgur.com/qXrmj2lh.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/pT339za.jpg

lol

also hurrah the return

It hasn't been raining much in Scotland, strangely.

that's awesome ogmor. i find myself desiring to wriggle like that sometimes.

NV, Bruges is great. Not that great when it rains, but even then it's still p great.

please tell me you tickled that beautiful cat’s belly

sunny on the south coast today

xp always. she's normally a quiet cat but she wouldn't shut up when I found her. her brother was doing little subdued mournful meows this morning and looking for her under the sofa, thankfully he can go back to terrorising her now.

miserable pussy reign

lol

this BBC guy in Wainfleet is standing next to flooded street and every time he's on camera he says something bewildering:
- "it's like looking at a lake, you see the perfect reflections of the houses" : what!?
- "270 tons of sandbags! To give you an idea, a polar bear weighs one ton." : WHAT!?

I knew Gove (or "Govey" as a farmer refereed to him on the Farming Today earlier) was promoting an environmental policy to deploy a limited number of beavers to strengthen natural flood defenses, it clearly didn't work. So perhaps now he's trying polar bears?

These local reporters have very few chances to get on national television - particularly if you're stuck out somewhere where nothing happens, like Lincolnshire - so they have to make the most of it in in the (usually vain) hope that they'll impress someone in London who will rescue from a life of reporting on overflowing slurry pits just outside Spalding.

Fuck's sake. I can only remember one day in the last 20 when it hasn't pissed down. As someone who cycles to and from work in my work clothes and has to leave my bike uncovered all day long, this is stretching my patience. Just checked the forecast and it says it's going to rain continuously from this morning until Sunday evening. Great.

this is exactly the thread I'd expect to see this morning, feeling a bit Ill and god does it look grim out there

I can guarantee that it's going to stop raining because I've just bought a new waterproof jacket online.

yeah this is OTT. it's not usually this bad this time of year

i haven’t been minding the rain, but that is at least in part because i’ve stopped cycling into work regularly. I would feel a lot closer to NBS’s mood otherwise.

I'll take a sunny -20 in January over this, thank you very much.

i remember from my time in poland that -20 is pushing it a bit for me. but clear winter’s days are wonderful.

however i do love the autumn damps and fogs.

I like it as well, there's just a bit too much of it here, and the dearth of stark contrasts is killing me. I suppose it all comes down to habit.

that’s interesting about the stark contrasts and its true grey skies and dull/coolish/mild days happen all year round.

but one of the things i miss about the countryside is the stronger sense of seasonal variation than you get in the city. smell of leaf mulch at this time of year, evaporating dew on early summer mornings, light dustings of snow on iron hard ground. those fogs, mists, drizzles and drears. the slightly brittle sense of warmth and emergent life in spring etc. dead, miserable february and early march.

that's beautiful fizzles and it almost makes me want to live in the countryside

Seconded!

I'm halfway there (or so it seems to me), but it's not quite the same.

re. strong contrasts: you get those generally everywhere between the North American coasts. This seems also to be the case in central and eastern Europe, and central Asia as well. I shudder when I look at the weather in Novosibirsk and Kazan; it reminds me too much of South Bend.

I find that strong weather changes lead to people getting sick: from 25C to 5C in a single day isn't that unusual in those places and bodies don't seem to handle it well. I'll take the steadier progressions in more maritime places.

And I have had enough countryside living for one life.

well there's countryside and then there's "ass-fuck middle of nowhere where only nomads would be living if it wasn't for large-scale water transport technology"

we're having some miserable pissy rain here in Austin, TX today, but since it's been non-stop drought conditions in the 90s since July, I can't really complain.

on days after a cold front moves through the Great Basin stripping the air to a clean, cold, dessicated wind and every detail of the 12-thousand-foot mountains and sagebrush basins is severely visible, being here is faintly terrifying and the giant dodge rams and f-250s on the highway, monuments to waning testosterone, become less laughable and more comforting to me, pathetically enough.

it's the heartbeat of america. it's today's chevrolet.

womp wommmmp

Driving around this evening it was just so dark, and the dull blatter of rain meant what I could see was never clear, I really did not feel safe.

blatter out

I had to change a litter box in this pissy weather, 0/10 do not recommend

I know this nothing compared to Typhoon Hagibis, but ffs can we have a couple of dry, sunny days please.

25 today in Paris today & tomorrow, and dry and relatively sunny. I suppose this relative heat wave did not cross la Manche?

joue pas au con, merci

mdr

Merde il pleut

Can someone or something please make it stop? Thanks in advance.

guys i think... it happened?

Emphasis on the past tense.

absolute definition of it

leaving house: just a few drops, will probably stop in a minute, no need to put on waterproofs
arriving at work: soaked :(

According too my app I walked 7.86 miles yesterday, my body feels more like it did 20 miles on account that trudging through quagmire whilst its pissing it down takes much more out of you.

Just pissing as normal in Glasgow

love too dodge wet glass pavement squares amidst tons of fucking tourists and in low visibility

the government put them there to fell tankies iirc

all's dandy now but tonight we're supposed to get 100kph gusts from a system working its way up from the Bay of Biscay. some rain too, probably not pissy either

Impressionnant cet orage qui s'abat sur la région de #Nantes en ce moment. pic.twitter.com/41upypXhGh

— Marion Lopez (@MarionLpz) October 14, 2019

this doesn't look too pissy

Not bad here at the moment, but...

An amber severe weather warning for #thunderstorms has been issued: https://t.co/QwDLMfRBfs Stay #weatheraware @metofficeuk pic.twitter.com/a5zUdWHDAM

— Met Office (@metoffice) October 14, 2019

Yeah we’re under orange alert this evening, tornados possible but probably outside la capitale.

Not bad here at the moment, but...

🐦[An amber severe weather warning for #thunderstorms🕸 has been issued: https://t.co/QwDLMfRBfs🕸 Stay #weatheraware🕸 @metofficeuk🕸 pic.twitter.com/a5zUdWHDAM🕸
— Met Office (@metoffice) October 14, 2019🕸]🐦

this one makes better noises: http://en.blitzortung.org/live_lightning_maps.php?map=10

FYI I am in a caravan the West Texas effing DESERT and experiencing miserable pissy rain.

so things are looking up for you

(The weather here’s been mostly vg but I wasn’t expecting to be rained on in the desert.)

ARGH! MAKE IT STOP!

Keep strong and look forward to next summer, with its inevitable annual drought crisis predictions for the UK.

particularly pissy today

I now understand 'Here Comes the Sun' and acknowledge that it's a remarkable song.

I love the obsessive info on Wikipedia:


Data from two meteorological stations in the London area show that April 1969 set a record for sunlight hours for the 1960s. The Greenwich station recorded 189 hours for April, a high that was not beaten until 1984. The Greenwich data also show that February and March were much colder than the norm for the 1960s, which would account for Harrison's reference to a "long, cold, lonely winter".[3]

I’m on a visit to Liverpool this weekend and it hasn’t stopped raining since I arrived yesterday afternoon. I’ve yet to be able to put away my umbrella when outside. And it’s freezing.

On the plus side, the air quality is excellent (as an asthmatic I’m a connoisseur) and the leaf colours are spectacularly more autumnal than London.

it's very hilly where I live and has been raining without a pause since yesterday evening. The gutters get overwhelmed really fast here and overflow turning the pavements and roads into streams and it is quite a lovely sight until some driver twat deliberately drenches you.

some run-off outside the back window was making this steady low whirring sound all through the night, still going this morning, why the fuck was i born on this shithole island?

In Rotherham my kid's school has been closed and apparently the train station is flooded. It has been pissing it down hard since this morning.

the air quality is excellent

A+ atmos, would breathe again. On the other hand, I don't enjoy the resumption of my ability to simultaneously smell everyone on the bus. And the bus.

turning into an interesting choice between drowning and starving this evening

sat in a pub this aft, eating pizza and supping in front of a coal fire with an old pal from Berlin I've not seen in a decade and it was really good civilised fun until pub filled up with braying office boy wankers and we had to both get off - into that miserable pissy rain was so fucking depressing.

https://66.media.tumblr.com/1de697413c7f9e6206c70ea61c89b2cb/tumblr_mgy8zuaeSc1qzg2mso1_500.gifv

some Great British weather for your Brexit party. enjoy.

Gammon faced wankers get their parade literally pissed on.

seriously. fuck up, weather

february has been about 4 months long up here

I can live with rain, but not the fear when you hear the first rumble of thunder and it is at least a 15 minute panic run to the safety of not being the tallest object for nuff acres of flat land! Saying that there are probably worse ways to go than getting incinerated by a billion volts.

This is the worst season of rain I can ever remember. Internet connection has needed openreach guys fixing it about five times or six in the last two months. It's holding up good right now but I'm not optimistic.

I cant remember the last year I noticed Spring; Winter seems to go straight into Summer.

builders + months of constant miserable pissy rain = my back garden looks like glastonbury

One of the odd things it has done to me is giving me the difficult to resist feeling that it's someone's fault. I think this is perhaps a symptom of increasing convenience in life and I've always been annoyed by people who act like bad weather can be directly blamed on whoever is in charge (perhaps with the general increase in bad weather and governments not responding well to disasters but not in any specific incidents).

I keep feeling like there should be a god or magical weather man I can punch in the face for this weather.

So much more pleasurable being stuck indoors when it's raining.

aye bring back the rain all is forgiven

Nah, I don't miss its omnipresence at all.

at least if it was raining I wouldn't have serious cycling fomo

Are you allowed to jog?

pom

ffs I only wanted to go to the shop

Is this the pissiest July on record?

Not rained in London all week.

Sunday morning it did in w12. Pavement was still wet when I went to the park about 9:30.

Same in E17. Maybe the rain decided to spare north London.

I'm south of London and yesterday was quite pissy, in spirit if not literally all day. Doesn't always get to me but maybe it was a little pissy in my heart as well.

NOT NOW, WEATHER >:(

Pissy this morning even though it was forecast to be pissy this afternoon. Probably still be a bit pissy this afternoon.

miserable pissy rain

Pissy... So Addictive

It's even raining in North London... though not much tbh.

so much for going to the beach today

It's wazzing down stair-rods.

i live in the south west, and today we experienced epic rain for hours.
that said, this vs the extreme heatwaves we have had.
i am not so sure which i prefer.

It'd be nice to have some kind of happy medium instead of everything always being extremely something or other - the driest / wettest / hottest / coldest / sunniest / dullest / windiest ever.

i liked the heatwave

I like weather and am enough of a misanthrope to prefer it when there are far less fair-weather wankers about ruining the glorious desolation of places I like to go. Some loudmouthed middle class Karen yelling: Excuse me your dog is scaring my child and bunches of pissed up middle-class wanker-dads playing Rounders and giving snidey looks to Alex because he wouldn't throw their ball back are what I saw last time it was sunny. Rain get's rid of arseholes consistently, and the all-weather regulars are a much better class of people.

Agree. The best time for a walk is when it’s raining

i can't remember the last time it really rained in this godforsaken desert and i long for it. on the other hand i know if we do get rain i'll be squeamish about it and want to stay indoors.

"godforsaken desert" sounds so cool, but I don't think me nor my panting labbie would last very long in that kind of terrain, but can totally understand the attraction.

the climate is the best part really, it's the culture that's the real desert

well here we have a mostly perpetual rain sodden cultural desert where you better not talk bout sophistication until you've bin to Leeds. Could be worse tho!

quite fancy living in a desert honestly. been rained on too much.

don't mind some light rain and a breeze for a spot of perambulating. just no gale force inundations, please

A whole day of miserable pissy rain.

Three days and counting.

Lol it’s been relentless here, was planning to go out to the post office this weekend but not a second of letup...

I feel this is recompense for allowing us an almost completely uninterrupted half-season of COVID cricket

It's grim up north.

pissing it down, all day

incredibly consistent fine spray, like god has loaded up her cheeks and is blowing it at us through a puckered mouth all day

at least it's bringing some warmth here in NY

morning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHEYoMSDoIQ

lulz

Think I picked the wrong day to walk to and from work.

Today: miserable pissy rain
Tomorrow: miserable pissy freezing sleet

Think I picked the wrong day to walk to and from work.

My cycle each way was decidedly wet and cold and dark.

might as well live in Glasgow!

i feel like there have been about three clear days in the past 10 weeks

been dry here recently

everything's shut so don't need to leave the house so not a biggie either way

I love rain, listening to it and even going out in it under endless grey skies where it almost becomes night at half three pm.

I usually walk to and from work tbf. I don't have a problem with heavy rain because you know it's not going to last and you can shelter from it but this miserable pissy rain that doesn't look that heavy but you end up more drenched than with the heavy stuff because it lasts for fucking hours and it's that steady constant Chinese torture thing ugh.

Miserable pissy snow this am

it's just been gently sleeting here but the distant moors are all whited out

We didn't get sleet here. I feel strangely cheated.

live on the edge of the desert, so a miserable pissy rain day only happens a few times a year. today is one of those days.

Vintage bank holiday weather.

Not reached here yet but it's forecast to piss down until at least midnight.

Foul out there and fucking freezing.

HAIL

blue skies and evening sunshine here, a bit chilly for May but perfect conditions for an evening walk down the canal towards Horbury.

miserable freezing fucking hail

(luckily for me, not in the areas where I work or live, but I did pass through it on the bus going home)

wasn't trying to weather boast, it was ominous dark clouds on the horizon and there was a significant temperature drop on the return journey

We're going to transition directly from why is it still fuckin cold to OK now it's uncomfortably warm aren't we.

Yes, and in the same day as well (see tomorrow in South East England for details).

The Day It Pissed Down Forever

I am in the Waterstones cafe trying to dry off as even with an umbrella my clothes got soaked. Might be a good few hours yet

I got caught in a downpour wearing a not very sensible jacket. Was mainly relieved that it didn't come with thunder & lightning because receiving megavolts from the heavens is definitely not on my bucket list.

I left and am now reduced to cowering in brewdog, for any stalkers following along

I'm amazed I haven't bumped into you yet! (As I go to these places, not due to excesses of stalking)

Pond outside looking dangerously full.

Sunny in Holborn but the puppy’s obedience class got called off an hour before we were supposed to go, then rain, then sunshine for the 45 minutes the class was supposed to happen.

Yes, it's alternating between sun and torrential downpours here.

I'm amazed I haven't bumped into you yet! (As I go to these places, not due to excesses of stalking)

Pond outside looking dangerously full.

Not only is it miserable pissy rain day every day but it's fucking freezing. It's nearly june and my clothes are still cold when I put them on in the morning.

conversely

It reached +30°C (86.5°F) in the Arctic today. Hotter than pretty much all of Europe right now.

Truly exceptional for any time of the year but mind-boggling for May. More updates to follow. pic.twitter.com/2CTTykUW3F

— Scott Duncan (@ScottDuncanWX) May 19, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ohgIZbrW4s

The mother and father of a hailstorm going on.

But then it turns to really good sunshine for about five mins, then grey then showers

yeah i wouldn't mind all this rain so much if it wasn't so chuffing cold as well.

Third cycle of this.

And yeah turning the heating on occasion

I was planning to go to the pub tonight for the first time since last summer but that's out.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E2KLPB8XsAAic0S?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

my dog hates the rain so I got him a new raincoat that looks more like a bishop's robe

Relentless today.

I biked back from the gym and now I'm working at the office in wet jeans, wet socks and wet shoes.

Pretty sure I can feel the trenchfoot already

Had to help someone clean out guttering using an extendable ladder today, like fuck did I go up it though. Your gutters, your funeral. Maybe we should have checked the forecast, a thought for next time. Luckily no-one slipped and tumbled to their doom.

this thread title has taken up residence in my mind and this morning I would like to report that in Cambridge we have the most miserably pissy rain of the year so far, a little more than drizzle, but enough to need an umbrella, accompanied by a gusty wind and a 10-degree drop in the temperature, and falling on me without pause for apparently the next few years.

^Feeling that, I'm 50 mins east of yer in Norfolk, driest county in Britain, my arse.

Utterly drenched walking Widget the whiplet back from Lincoln’s Inn Fields but mood brightened by seeing 20 of the Tartan Army running for the pub. I am staying indoors for as much of today as possible.

Torrential at the moment.

Been out for an hour with only a brolly for protection. It's lovely!

Hoping for a 1970s-style quagmire pitch for England vs Scotland tonight.

Can confirm, these are the scenes in Cambridge today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLjRj8rSJpk

Early this afternoon at work it was slashing down so hard that water was coming through a hole in the window and starting to seep through the wall.

Crikey.

time to get the surfboard out?

We were promised a thunderstorm at 3pm, 4:40 now and haven't heard a rumble or seen a drop, very disappointing.

We've got yours too.

xp it’s waiting for me walking home in a couple of hours

Forecast to be thundery showers all day. There have been four rumbles but that's it. Plenty of rain though.

I’ve learned not to put too much stock in forecast thunderstorms, feels like more often than not they don’t materialise - I guess they are more unpredictable than other types of weather or tend to be more localised or something

Don't worry, if the weather's especially bad in London, the rest of you will hear all about it.

https://www.blitzortung.org/en/live_lightning_maps.php?map=12

the only way of tracking storms is doing it live

yesss

according to that the storm is already here. just had a listen outside and reckon I can hear a distant rumble, might just be a lorry

Flooding in East London gets out of controlpic.twitter.com/gzJ3HSfLEq

— The Pileus (@thepileus) July 25, 2021

hope giles coren's house gets flooded

Severe thunderstorms over central London throughout much of this afternoon have again caused major flash flooding in parts of the capital.

This is the scene at Pudding Mill Lane DLR Station in Stratford (via @R0bday): pic.twitter.com/pJxagrelnf

— James Cosgrove (@MrJamesCosgrove) July 25, 2021

cold swimming and commuting, never a good mix

coren's house is on a hill sadly so the best we can hope for is violent run-off eroding its foundations

i know this now because I put some flowers there on Friday, the video reminded me of the street, suppose lots of streets in london look like that though, if I hide this it won't be in search results yeah? I know he is a bit litigious

previous videos showed Portobello road and around by me I've seen people putting sodden cellar contents out into the road (counter creek they call it, Thames water have an "action plan". we get mail about it, although I'm 2 floors up so shrug emoji)

Flooding in Walthamstow where I spent my teens and my mother still lives., Apparently had 6 ins of water in every downstairs room & more towards teh back of the house where the floor levels are lower.
I don'tr remember hearing of flooding in the street since teh early 80s where it used to flood about half way down the street fron what i remember, THis was all the way along the street and i think deeper.
Drag, so glad I'm elsewhere and 4 flights up.,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqaC-Ysioj4
guy wadfing into the beginning of a road a bit in is the end of teh road I spent my teens in and the guy standing in shorts outside a Victorian building is the far end of that road. Yeah can see that the depth of flooding is deeper than I remember from the 80s. It doesn't seem to have an end from that shot, though road goes up hill behind the camera.
I wonder how frequently this will repeat now its happened

thumbnail still image is from outside the school at the end of the road too.
THe council in the borough have tried to combat rat running drivers by placing small mini parks at the end of the roads that used to be through roads so where you're seeing bollards there is around where this park thing is

there's at least a couple of flash-floods every year in london when the summer rains first come, often including negative effect on the underground -- this going back as long as i've lived here: bcz the storms drains as they are can't handle the sudden flow and back up and the water needs to go somewhere and in some places there's a lot of handy holes and in others not so much (holes can't take it)

this was worse in that it was in unexpected places -- and is at the front of our minds for obvious reasons and we all get to see the social-media clips -- but the basic london problem here is not at all new, it's old and seemingly untackled, certainlt unre-tackled with a view to the threats of the future

is there even the ghost of the notion of a larger longer-term joined-up project? maybe yes and only wonks are chatting abt it in obscurity? someone must have written this (perhaps i should go search) but i've never read anything comprehensive on the state of the physical infrastructure to tackle this issue even in ordinary years (if we will even be gettging "ordinary" years ever again). a fvckton of street restructuring goes on all the time but it's notoriously unco-ordinated -- the same street dug up three times in a row for different reasons, instead of tackling everything in one go -- and that's just maintenance

AIUI there is a Mayoral target for area of sustainable urban drainage (SUDs) which in theory gets included in new developments etc, but I've no idea how far it goes towards addressing the current or future issue.

tfw yr advised "sadiq is on it!" :|

(cheers tim, i confess i did no research work at all before posting)

Just been looking at an elevation map of Hebden Bridge and am aware of how steep some of the paths are but didn't realise that some of the parts where I used to go walking are 800ft + higher than the parts of the town that frequently get flooded.

Flooding in Walthamstow where I spent my teens and my mother still lives.

I think Calzino's first video post ('Flooding in East London gets out of control') is actually my street (in Walthamstow).

does the same red car appear in both? Like there's a red car taht appears in 2 different videos I saw yesterday and isn't on the street I was referring to. Not sure where around Walthamstow it would have been though. May be a different acr but I think it looked similar

‘Hey, there’s a red car in the fountain’.

bump

lovin it

welp

It took two attempts to get Widget outside for ones and twos this morning. Whippets HATE rain.

Woody still hasn't gone. Raced outside the second I opened the door and turned right back around. Confused. Disappointed.

Widget was enticed out by his friend Mabel the cockapoo also going about her business across the street. We are now safe to go out for the BIG WALK (get the bus to Little Venice, walk the canal back to Kings Cross).

jesus. it woke me up at 3, it's now 4 and has just been solid that entire time.

Yeah I sleep in the loft and it was just hammering down.

i like that sound (when i'm inside and in bed): i sleep better

Lots of lake-style puddles this morning!

Got woken up at 1am to investigate water dripping on my wife & toddler's bed. A hopefully minor and easily fixable leak from our roof window.

my work is semi flooded, we have all been moved to the back of the building.

Just went from light-to-moderate miserable pissy rain to heavy rain. Looks like I got indoors just in time. Jeans are still soaked though.

with rain, that is

miserable pissy sandstorm turning the sky yellow this morning

The sky has been such a weird color in London!

(colour) 8)

it's spooky yet gorgeous

what this year needs is a miserable pissy fall of fish tbrr

miserable piscine rain

miserable pissy snow

Didn’t experience the sleet/snow in London but the wind is no fucking joke today

Perfect weather for an ILB FAP, outdoors of course.

Minnesota's fully in "Winter, 1st Encore" for the foreseeable future.

Perfect weather for an ILB FAP, outdoors of course.

miserable pissy Jubliee

rainy joobs

soggy gammons

the colours will be running
ON YOUR SUPERMARKET BUNTING

wimbledon fortnight started 3.5 hours ago

yay!

Maybe tomorrow afternoon where I live. The ground is so dry it's just going to roll straight off.

Pissing down here in Edinburgh, as usual

koogs where are you yaying from?

oh wait i just got a faceful of petrichor, it has quietly rained a little here also

yay from w12.

the reality is it was enough to wet the roads and there was some thunder but that was about it. it also made me close the windows so now urgh, muggy

Yeah this is it, you need the storm as well otherwise it’s just muggy af :( looking at lightningmaps with some envy of Italy rn

i will never close the window

could really use some of this in Austin, TX. we've had pretty much zero rain for the past couple months.

Maybe tomorrow afternoon where I live. The ground is so dry it's just going to roll straight off.

― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Monday, 15 August 2022 bookmarkflaglink

Let it roll to me, I'll take it!

I split my time between Atlanta and Los Angeles. Atlanta has had a ton of rain, and lots of electrical activity. Los Angeles is drying up.

met office said: 50-60% chance of heavy rain. Threw caution to the wind and went out in a t-shirt twice today and disappointingly didn't get rained on either time, despite the ominously stormy looking skies that delivered nothing.

I am not miserable anymore

slapdown for the first ilxor to use pissy in its former (and incorrect) negative sense

pissesque

floods on the road of my mother's house again. Wood st E17 area. a year and a month after first flooding in a few decades.

sounds from posts I've read as though people were just getting things back together after last year's damage and been hit again. & the drains weren't as cleaned as intended.

Thames Water probably too busy anxiously waiting with finger trembling over the "RELEASE RAW SEWAGE INTO WATERWAYS" button at first sign of a deluge, rather than considering getting things together. Private Water is a fucking criminal enterprise, it really pisses me off. Anyway when the YW hosepipe ban kicks in I'm still going to continue putting the pool in my garden and filling it. Just to tempt the neighbourhood grass into action and see their disappointment when I inform them they are wasting their time because disabled blue card holders/priority service users are exempt from the ban. ha-ha-ha-ha

Won't you spare a thought for the annual marrow-growing contest?

is that wet enough for yer?

would like this to stop please as my flat is currently flooding :(

oddly mine did the other day but is dry as a bone today. some wind directions are much worse than others (for apparently at least 2 different reasons - onto front windows = them leaking, onto upstairs' windows = them leaking *through* her flat and into mine)

Seemingly two week's rain in 20 minutes, and I got caught in it. I had an umbrella but even so, bottom of trousers and right sleeve of shirt soaked.

New cagoule was delivered yesterday, so bring on the rain.

Been raining for about 10 hours. need to go buy breakfast but I'm not sure i even have anything waterproof to wear.

Thursdays are when I take Widget to the Heath but not in this weather! If it were light drizzle I might still go, but at this point he doesn’t even want to go out to pee.

So much rain that the drains are overflowing.

Two big puddles on either side of the road

the roads were flooded out round Turnpike Lane station this morning, thankfully the tube station itself is not yet a sewer

https://www.millets.co.uk/15989960/peter-storm-men-s-waterproof-parka-in-a-pack-15989960
These cagoules rule - but get a size bigger than you think you need. My co-workers think that 'cagoule' is a hilarious word. But I'm still dry after walking a mile in the rain, while they're soggy after walking over from the car park in a fleece.

it did give up enough for me to walk around park and supermarket but yes, big puddles, probably the biggest i've seen. both blocked drains on the roads and waterlogged grass in the park

Right in time for the New Year.

Northern California is getting nailed this week... a series of storms for the next ten days

England is so filthy sometimes that even the rain - literally purified water falling from the sky - feels dirty somehow.

Uranus has no pity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjOsAcITdZo

Can handle the rain, the miserable low pressure and accompanying headaches not so much

it was grey walking along the river this morning and kind of fun because i was underdressed for it and it felt more of an adventure.

every time this weather comes round I long to leave again, but too tied to house/job now and would be too difficult for the kids

I have been wondering about that lately x poste - I think I have been getting atmospheric pressure headaches

https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/portland/04101/arthritis-weather/329157

welp

miserable pissy snow?

if it's gonna be this fucking cold at least snow is how I break it down to a certain extent