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

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...

Curious. Worst/scariest flooding I've ever driven through yesterday, on the Essex/Suffolk border, in a kind of "I wouldn't normally drive through that puddle but I'm not really sure what else I can do" sort of way. Eventually, stopped trying to get anywhere in particular beyond zig-zagging to *anywhere* that might be less wet.

i am back on my bullshit viz reading "flooded shropshire" stories on the shropshire star twitter account (the only good account):

e.g. "two kayakers were spotted paddling across a country road" near craven arms 🌊🛶👍🏽

Link?

Clearly the government have hidden all the nanobot vaccines in huge under-forest caches

numb to it

hello from Oregon

our nephew moved in last month, he's been in Oregon since August. Today he asked the classic "how long does it rain for, anyway" - he was not expecting the answer to be "until May", lol

lol

I used to go to the Gambia a fair bit and there the conversation was the opposite: you ask when it's going to rain and someone looks up and says, 'eh, April'.

Absolutely shat it down here last night. The rivers are swole af.

big one on the way to Northern California

But it can't just be heavy rain anymore, everything has to be an 'atmospheric river'

it’s wild out there

a tornado warning in Scotland, never thought I would see the day

I left the landing window open, the roller blind was flapping like crazy and there were some leaves on my stairs. Quite fair to call this fucker as a named storm system, but it doesn't sound like 90 mph wind here, yet.

A “tornado watch” zone was issued for Northern Ireland as well as parts of Scotland and northern England by the Tornado and Storm Research Organisation (Torro) on Sunday afternoon. That means a “strong tornado” is possible in those regions.

see how it goes time

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

Impatiently waiting for Spring to start in London, delayed by a classic pissy rain Sunday with no hint of sun.

just walked about 5 miles in various levels of pissy rain, all of it miserable.

I've just come back from a two mile walk in the rain and of course now it's stopped and there's a hint of sun.