miserable pissy rain

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?

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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.

His happy enthusiastic bounding about in awful weather and terrible conditions is always an inspiration to me!

would absolutely take a few days of yalls rain off your hands, in return you'd be getting sunshine, haze and an aqi of 60.

on Wednesday it was technically cold enough to snow (about 2 degrees c) but it was just very fucking cold rain. It felt freezing cold out there. Putting the recycle bin out I snagged my thumb on a wall and broke the top of my nail, and it was an agonising flash of pain. Like when your hands are freezing and wet and you hit them hard on brick, you really feel it.

It's been so bad for so long in London, just grim as fuck daily and the forecast says rain every day for about two weeks.

I commute to and from work by bike. Obviously it rains fairly often, but usually you just get a bit damp, not drenched - that only happens maybe two or three times a year. Except for 2026: I've been absolutely drowned at least 7 times already. It just never fucking ends.

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"just grim as fuck daily and the forecast says rain every day for about two weeks"

My local council has also taken the opportunity to schedule a bunch of roadworks, because it's January and the weather's so nice. This is just after another bout of roadworks that finished a few weeks ago. There are few things more demoralising to be told that there will be temporary traffic lights on a crucial stretch of road that goes up a hill until 27 February 2026, coinciding with weeks of rain.

They're doing the roadworks because there's a new housing estate under construction. It has "Grange" in the name and the houses start at £330,000. They're all on a hill where the only exit is onto a national speed limit road. At the moment they're all empty shells with rain chucking down, which makes me wonder if houses built in the summer are more resilient in the long-term than houses built in the winter. I have no idea. I remember when the average house price in the UK reached £250,000. I remember thinking that £250,000 used to be a lot of money - it's a quarter of a million pounds! - but the media was like "great" and "this is fantastic" so what do I know.

The doubly irritating thing is that without the roadworks the local transport network is not bad. The road has a nice wide path that's shared between pedestrians and cyclists. I have walked that path. I have cycled it. I have driven my motorcycle beside it. And perhaps one day I will burrow underneath it, like a mole. But at the moment I can't cycle along it because the path is being hacked up. Walking along it is tricky because it's now covered in stones. Driving beside it is awkward because it's a steep hill. Flying over it is depressing because the workmen look unhappy. Because it's raining.

I now appreciate why people in medieval times were so happy when the weather got better in the summer. They didn't have television to keep them amused during the long winter months. Instead they had shinty and that game where you have to pin a tail on a donkey. Which are both a lot easier to do when it's not raining.

They're doing the roadworks because there's a new housing estate under construction. It has "Grange" in the name and the houses start at £330,000.

same shit here - in assfuck desert bad air town, u.s. - except new housing is $350,000 and the road closures / new construction is literally every other block. our microplastic governor put out some meme about how the utah economy was #1 in the country. i guess at this point "good economy" just means "how many new houses there are and how expensive". meanwhile he literally wants to book any homeless person into a forced reeducation camp 30 miles away from the city.

in the post truth u.s. we make believe that life is good by simply erasing poor people. if they aren't measured or seen they don't exist!

good stuff

Except for 2026: I've been absolutely drowned at least 7 times already. It just never fucking ends.

Three more times already since I wrote that

I actually had a a brief glimpse of the sky this morning - blue it was. Honest.

Just chucking it down in East London rn

it's been wet on the floor every morning on my walk, but it's rarely been raining. but i've holes in my shoes so it has been miserable everyday, and you can't go and buy shoes with wet socks.

had a comedy-basic bus-through-puddle incident the other day, which was funny. would've been less funny if i wasn't 2 minutes from home.

More and more potholes appearing on the busy arterial street I live on and on a road that was relaid only 18 months ago and already has repeated problems with the water pipes under it. But trying not to be cowed by the threat of sinkhole terror. Just ban cars thanks.

and WE’RE BACK BABY

could feel the collective relief at the few hours of sunshine yesterday but didn't last long. still in bed here, lol.

Clearing up tonight which feels like an annoying trend lately too like it specifically has to get dark for the clouds to clear.

Tomorrow and Tuesday forecast to be mostly dry here in SE England, but then back on the rain again for a fortnight.

a road that was relaid only 18 months ago

^^^ a main road near where I live and another main road I walk along in the town where I work both have big potholes appearing, mostly in places that were patched up by the council two years ago.

miserable pissy sleet

It’s snowing here!

What’s extra fun is the classic thing of it raining all the time for weeks and weeks and yet technically we’re still in a drought

Oh I can't wait for Thames Water to announce around Easter that there's a hosepipe ban.

I broke down and am now taking an umbrella out and about with me

it was dry enough yesterday for me to buy shoes.

but it's been too wet so far today for me to do my usual walk.

Widget and I are on a bus because his overcoat got soaked through and he kept staring at me with martyr’s eyes.

we've cycled through heavy drizzle, sleet, snow (which didn't settle), hail, and now regular rain and absolutely pissing it down, just since I left the house about an hour ago.

OK back to the sleet now

The sun came out here for one min.

Taking my wins where I can

Now a double rainbow. Maybe its the beginning.of the end..

All the way?

It's stopped raining for a short while here so I put the rubbish bin out. There's also a slight break in the clouds butm, as nashwan noted above, it's now getting dark.

hello wetness my old friend

A giant tree across the road from me fell down sometime last night, right on the roof of an apartment building. The ground has been saturated for days now and it got pretty windy. More rain coming this weekend

Hate it when this happens

when the summer comes and the interminable rain ends. I'm going to start doing all steam intensive cooking outside. I've got an old plastic IKEA table and two plugin induction hobs. Yes outside cooking by the back door is going to become my thing.

Sometimes when it rains like this I think of The Lathe of Heaven.

Just got in from work. Absolutely soaked through.

Stepped out for a walk just as a thuderstorm rolled in so literally did a Grandpa Simpson 180 back inside. I don't have a good western view from my flat so can be that oblivious to imminent cloudbursts at times.

A 'highlight' earlier today - I was in an outbuilding that we use as a storage area and it started bucketing down. Of course I didn't have a jacket on. Had to wait until the rain let up a bit and then ran back to the office.