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?

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

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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 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.