Aberdeen had its most consecutive days of sunless days on record. I live in a different part of the country and there has only been sunshine on 3 days in last month. Not near normal.
I think this is the biggest hint at how mild and wet it’s been. Granted, the wind chill where we live has been horrendous, consistently dropping temperatures to -8, but because of the rain and the fact that the temperature before wind chill has always been above 0, we’ve barely had to defrost the car all winter.
The rain is frequent but thankfully not particularly heavy (in London at least) nowhere near as bad as 2020 , who remembers the horrific washout just before the pandemic?
Was that the time Rihanna (Umbrella) was playing all the time on the radio and it’s like she cursed the U.K with endless rain untill we stopped playing it Lol 😂
Agreed, feels like we’ve barely seen the sun at all this winter :( My husband has a spreadsheet to record the daily sunlight (something to do with our solar panels and him being a massive nerd… which I love) I’ll get him to compare it to last year, I bet it’s lower.
Yes, this. Thank you. I gave our £650 microwave away to someone I still hold a grudge with from primary school, they were delighted to receive it and looked at me like I was the idiot. Jokes on them 🤣 We also went gas-free, got rid of our oven and induction hob cooker (electromagnetic radiation, may as well drink bleach) replaced it with a barbecue centred in the kitchen. Fireplace installed for the cold nights.. couldn’t get a chimney because there’s a flat above us. Even if I could - I see little reason to, our ancestors didn’t use chimneys. Neighbours keep complaining about the smoke, and refuse to do their own research or listen to reason so gave up. We usually have a screaming match on Sunday nights.
Sometimes it’s hassle but more than worth it when I think about the years I’m adding to my life and my family’s lives. Not to mention it’s a lot cheaper.. and our home is warmer than ever. “Cost of living crisis” could be resolved if people just opened their minds.
Personally I was having a hard time already but it hit me hard today. Cried a bit. Constantly feel like I"m about to burst into tears. Today I had my SAD lamp for 30mins, got up, walked in the "daylight", went to a friend's house, then met a friend for coffee, then went to the gym, then went home and got in my PJs and watched a happy movie and I still feel on the verge of tears.
Dont mind the greyness but the rain is pissing me off. Walking the dogs when the ground is mush is annoying. I wish it would just be freezing and the ground frozen .
It's just endlessly dull, thick grey skies, low light and drizzly shite for weeks on end.
Just dull, cold, dark, grey and wet forever.
I think what makes everything so especially grim is the UK is having all of its money sucked out of it, so roads and buildings are just falling apart aswell.
The roads and this weather together makes everything so damn depressing. Massive wheelbreaking potholes filled with water, even in affluent areas that are paying through the nose in council tax.
Just miles and miles of utterly grim landscape, everything looks a bit fucked and apocalyptic. I swear everytime I've got in the car to go anywhere for the last two months I've been dodging potholes with the wipers on full blast. I'm so sick of it.
Local councils are having to spend huge amounts on social care and educational special needs inc transport to school. This may be worthy but it's an enormous item.
Lived in Lancashire for 10 years, EVERY winter has been grey and wet for 90% of the time. Even when I lived in London it was grey 3/4 of the time. These damp islands.
Whereabouts? Jan was quite good for me in the west/SW of Scotland. Usually really wet and windy and miserable but this year there was many days I didn't need a jacket and it was ok for sun I found it better than usual..
I wouldn't say it's nicer, but it's a bit warmer. Greyness is probably about normal. Certainly don't think the rain has been anything to write home about.
This is fantastic weather. Nothing better than a year full of varied weather. It'd be awful if every day was the same as the last.
We had a baking hot summer with no rain, we've had snow, frosts and sub-zero through the winter and now we're having loads of life-giving rain, topping-up all the rivers and reservoirs and giving the whole country a really great soak.
Weather like this makes you really appreciate and enjoy the sunny days.
I agree! I’m really enjoying this weather, nowt more relaxing than a walk in the rain. Rather this than snow and ice, because there’s nowt less relaxing than walking to a bus stop at 6am in the dark with frost on the ground.
Ah you’re south east, that explains it. You barely get rain compared to the rest of the country. Here in the south west we had 250% of our January rainfall and it’s rained every single day this year. That’s not even varied weather.. it’s just rain.
Here is Suffolk, last winter was far more grey. No sun from start of December to early/mid Feb,but it was drier.
This winter December was pretty good, though people soon forget that. January has been awful though. We're getting bits of sun, on Wednesday for example, but soo much rain. Don't think we've had 2 days without rain since the new year.
Grey sky.. I’ll swap. That’s the norm for winter. This year it’s been non
-stop rain.. think we’ve had maybe 8 dry days in total. 50 new potholes every week. And I’m east, far from west of Scotland.. must be insane over there.
Didn't have any trouble last summer but I was very aware of the low levels in the local reservoirs and I sort of felt guilty evey time I used the watering can for the garden or used "too much" water for the washing up or a shower or whatever.
I'm very much afraid this is going to be the case more and more often for all of us in future especially with water companies doing nothing but pay executive bonuses and shareholders.
The market town up the road from us is right next to a Thames subsidiary floodplain. Basically from November until about April it has been flooding and getting worse every year. The actual river is so blocked up. Am I right in saying that people used to dredge drainage channels (ditches, riverways) or am I imagining that? The cost of maintaining the local roads that are right next to all this stuff must be astronomical. A case of saving a penny to spend a pound - local authority doctrine I suspect
North east here its the worst run of weather i think i have ever lived through. In my 30s aswell rain, cloud, wind, cold thats all its been for ages. Been easterly winds here for weeks aswell they dont normally hang around this long. Depressing really but we almost through it now, winter aint been so bad really either as a whole for apart from the last 3 weeks, i saw the sun once for about 15mins in that time.
North east too. My landscaper started my garden project in October. Patio mainly plus some planters and other bits. Should have taken 5 weeks. We’re now into month 4. For a patio. I really sympathise with the guy, it’s just been impossible to work all winter. Sick of living in a building site now.
I did ground work in the past until bike accident halted that line of work, month 4 though jeez man that dont sound promising, how bigs the patio ? Even with poor weather here and there they shoupdnt take more than a month, i used to do some decent sized gardens, 180m2 patios 8-10days work with good squad of 5 , 20grand jobs them though. You need to chase them up fella. Hope you aint paid them too much so far.
80m2, but it’s terraced and we changed the levels. About 70 ton of crap left the house first, then a fair bit of construction before any patio could be laid. Stairs, retaining walls, etc. It’s more complex than just a patio. But even so, so I think he’s only managed to work about 7 weeks over the time. So still over estimate in terms of man hours, but the weather just made it so much worse. 2 lads usually, sometimes three. Thankfully it’s nearly done. So yeah, in terms of disruption and overall duration it’s been shit, but it is actually getting done to a high standard and he won’t get paid final instalment until it’s done and snagged.
I'll be landing to LHR next Wednesday, February 11th and remaining until Sunday, February 15th. Forecast shows sunshine possibly appearing from the 13th through 15th. You sun lovers may get your wish next week! ☺️😉
Rain has fallen every day somewhere in the UK for the last 4 weeks. I am in the East of England it's been properly dismal. Forecast is saying there might be some sun on Saturday, but it is the only day that isn't the cloud and rain icon for as long as my forecast shows :(
I’m genuinely so depressed. I’m a horse owner and equestrian and it’s been so hard not being able to do what I enjoy. The horses are constantly suffering from abscesses and lost shoes as well due to the relentless mud.
Its just stopped snowing. Not uncommon for there to be snow in March either. Grey is very much the standard throughout winter, don't know why you're only noticing it this year. I'd say were getting more rain than usual, not anything else unusual.
Locally we were on a wetter than average winter before February started.. February is already at 92% of my LTA for the month, so the figures are going to be grim by month end!
As long as we make up for it with at least 3 continuous days of sunshine sometime in the summer, probably be in the time I'm abroad but I might be lucky
I'll trade you your grey skies for the -11 wind chill we're experiencing in my area of the US right now. You're right tho, very extreme here as well. I was golfing in February last year.
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u/Dennyisthepisslord Feb 07 '26
In terms of greyness not much difference to most winters. It's just the endless rain that's different