Of this rain, wind, cold, rain, cold, wind. Bloody sick of it – I've just come back from a dog walk and I was freezing, despite having my big winter coat on. I then went into the garden to feed the rabbits, the ground is still absolutely sodden and the winter covers for the hutch were blowing all over the place.
Sick of it – when will we ever get any half-decent weather?
It's the last day of this crap. The short and long range forecast after today is very dry for SE Wales at least.
I was literally about to post much the same thing...
I'm generally ok with any sort of weather, plus I'm in Manchester so, while it's not really so bad as people moan about, I am used to drizzle... but aaargh I have seriously had enough of it this year. The weather and constant constant never-ending unceasing continual unending perpetual cold and rain is really badly getting me down. Seems non-stop since about September and I'm about to scream at this point.
It’s the last day of this crap.
I hope so - my girls are doing their DoE Bronze camping practice trip this weekend.
I'm going for a riding weekend to Wales, so don't count your chickens.
Yeah we've had it all today. It's currently sunny but freezing. Gale force winds, sideways icy sleet. It's bloody horrible. It's like December out there.
The wind was pushing me down the street trying to rip my coat off an hour ago.
Hailstone , Rain , Sunshine and wind sof far today – Its Er Changable for sure and im in the sunny south !!
TBF that is pretty normal for this time of year, and usually I find it fun to have blazing sunshine, snow, fog, hail etc all on the same day.
Today it's switching between sunny and overcast drizzle... I ride home for lunch and in that 10 minutes only it chucks it down with freezing slushy hail/rain so I arrive drenched and frozen. It's out to get me I tell you.
Youngest child will be off to Uni in 4 years, finished in 8. I applied for my Irish citizenship a while ago, as soon as that comes through passport will follow. Masterplan is to move to Montecorto in Spain at the earliest opportunity. This weather just confirms our logic.
eh? Raining today (on and off - just gone sunny again!) but yesterday was OK, Fri & Sat were lovely - 20 degrees & sunny all day! I got sunburnt on my Sat ride ☀️😂
I was feeling that way, but 3 days of sunshine and I'm pretty happy. Managed to burn my neck on Saturday's ride!
Things seem to be improving for us down south.
yep I feel the same, today feels like we've gone back to early Feb!
looking ahead, looks possibly like end of April things might settle down for us a bit:
Also sick of the weather!
Yesterday morning it was warm enough to ride in shorts and t shirt. This morning it was snowing😭
Yep, showers today but definitely feels dryer.
Doesn't help though that the KAW facebook group feedback from the weekend is that the bridleway south of Reading is still a mid bath / impassable. Great to know that the worst bit of riding for 200 miles is right past my house and my access to the trails 😂
I think in the last month, we've had 3* 24hr periods where it's not rained. One day at Easter, last Friday and yesterday. Bloody sick of it and the trails are still worse than mid winter in some places!
* I might be wrong but it certainly feels like that!
Sleet this morning, thunder this afternoon, half the trains not running due to a tree on the line, tonight's Cycle for Health ride cancelled and replaced with a "meet at the pub"
Last two hours of my ride yesterday I couldn't feel my hands from the wrist down.
West of Scotland right enough..
the trails are still worse than mid winter in some places!
I think Feb or early March is usually peak slop, but it's stretched out to mid-April this year.
On the upside, I've never felt so confident riding in the mud.
“ the bridleway south of Reading is still a mid bath / impassable. Great to know that the worst bit of riding for 200 miles is right past my house and my access to the trails 😂”
If you head north it’s just starting to dry out. The bridleways that are usually horrible still are obviously. Not been south yet but can imagine it’s horrific.
Plan for the worst and enjoy things more when worst doesn't turn up.
We are off up North in the morning and are packing kit for all seasons,it'll be fine.
#adaptordie 👍 😃
Oh and OP,that'll teach you for having demanding pets 😆 🤣
Just been for a 50k ride in bright warm sunshine, then hail, then sun, then rain but mostly sun. The bluebells are out and smell amazing. Almost like it’s April in the UK
You do gravel riding, yeah?
There's just so much surface water and slop that it's more annoying than MTB in the mud for me at the mo.
Had winter gear on for yesterday's hilly road ride - not warm. I'm off camping on Thursday - gulp.
A lot chillier than the very pleasant Saturday, not to mention blowy and the odd bit of wet stuff falling from the sky today in Hants (another shower due in next 10mins or so).
Part of me thinks just wrap up, take hybrid off turbo and take it out instead of road bike, part of me thinks just do a spin indoors...
If you head north it’s just starting to dry out. The bridleways that are usually horrible still are obviously. Not been south yet but can imagine it’s horrific.
Yea, I've not touched the gravel bike since September, it's just not been worth it. And MTB has been limited to a handful of trail center trips.
It's driven me to finally sorting out the fixie as a proper track bike and heading to Palmer Park to do my accreditation at the velodrome!
quite literally hero dirt at my local hill this weekend. even the 'mega death berm of eternal clay slipperyness' was decent.
the flat parts of friston were (unsurprisingly) pretty muddy still though. but anything with an actual slope was all good.
You do gravel riding, yeah?
There’s just so much surface water and slop that it’s more annoying than MTB in the mud for me at the mo.
It's the same underneath whatever tyres I'm using. I can't go without my riding fix so just get on with it whatever the weather. It was gusting up to 45mph today but its my last chance to ride before work until next week so I couldn't miss it. I'm getting on a bit so there's only so many rides left in these old legs so got to make the most of it while I still can, mud or not.
Yeah, if I'm honest, this weather is killing me slowly. Body and mind just don't work properly when faced with prolonged winter conditions.
Had a lovely ride in the sunny Chilts yesterday, it wasn't totally dry by any means but it was 100% better than what I thought it would be, today - Wind Hail and horizontal rain and 10degs colder.
Really really had enough now.
Same here. Half decent weekend, wind aside, and quite spring like. Back to winter today and just started raining icy rain just as I'm about to head home.
Still refusing to turn the heating back on though...
Temperature wise it's ok, heating pretty much off now, aside from the occasional boost.
It just feels like it hasn't stopped raining on and off for months though, which is my excuse for having done exacly zero gardening so far this year 🙂
Hailstone , Rain , Sunshine and wind sof far today – Its Er Changable for sure and im in the sunny south !!
Same for me, also in the South. Luckily this is first day of 7 the heating has been back on (building works).
well that glimmer of better weather has now disappeared 😞
normal service has resumed 👇
Tee shirt and shorts Saturday, and Friday, yesterday I was out for a walk from Biddestone, and managed to get half way round with my jacket off.
Today I’ve been trying to fabricate a fix for the fence at the bottom of the garden - there’s a two story block of flats the other side, and because the wind is mostly from the SW, it gets funnelled through like a wind tunnel, and because it’s been so wet, the ground is soft and the posts have become loose*. There’s been sun, rain, hail and a lot of wind today, but I’ve managed to get a piece of 2x4 with an angled end screwed to a post, and a steel tent peg at the bottom to stop it moving, there’s a small tree a couple of feet from the other post, so I’m hoping to fix something between the two to hold the post steady.
*The posts are fixed with postcrete, but there’s a limit to how deep a hole you can dig, without a pneumatic drill, because there’s almost solid stone about 2.5 feet down, the mate I helped put the fence up with spent a whole day digging four holes using crowbars to try to break up the stone - sodding hard work, and now these successive gales are loosening the concrete in the holes! Bollocks, basically. 😖
Windchill had the temps down to -1 today just outside Glasgow.
It's pretty much rained constantly here since last June and I'm absolutely scunnered with it
"Maybe the summer will come and the weather will be a good one."
Anything like last year it'll go from pleasant to unbearable in two days, to wet in two weeks, then staying wet for the rest of the year.
Funnily enough, took the dog out at 6pm last night - winter jacket, hood up, hands in pockets etc - bloody freezing. And then getting facebook memories pop up of previous years... lockdown where I was sipping beer in the garden in shorts and t-shirt, 2 years ago in Devon at Easter in shorts and t-shirt etc. WTF is going on (2 week forecast for Yorkshire doesn't show much improvement either - not hitting 15 degrees yet and lots of rain/showers).
Anything like last year it’ll go from pleasant to unbearable in two days, to wet in two weeks, then staying wet for the rest of the year.
I've had conversations with some weirdo's that think we had a great summer last year because we had a couple of hot days. My memory is the same as yours - mostly wet
weather so far this year sort of reminds me of middish 1990s
camping in 1998 for May Day in Yorkshire at Malham, that was freezing awful weather too...
WTF is going on
The Atlantic has warmed up considerably. Climate change and El Nino. This produces energy, this energy spins into saturated low pressure systems that track across the Atlantic one after the other by a southerly locked jet stream. We are directly in the firing line. If it makes you feel better, we share this weather with lots of Northern European countries, The Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, have all had equally record breaking wet weather for the last 18 months.
The Atlantic has warmed up considerably. Climate change and El Nino. This produces energy, this energy spins into saturated low pressure systems that track across the Atlantic one after the other by a southerly locked jet stream. We are directly in the firing line. If it makes you feel better, we share this weather with lots of Northern European countries, The Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, have all had equally record breaking wet weather for the last 18 months.
That's a depressing read on many levels! Does that mean that from now on we can expect wet weather all year round forever?!?
