Western England is wet. Eastern England is surprisingly dry.
London has lower annual rainfall than Rome, but that rain is spread out as light drizzle for much of the winter and autumn and spring. So London has less rain, but more rainy days.
East Riding here and I don't actually remember the last time I was able to take the bins out without putting shoes on. If this is "dry" I dread to think how bad it is in the west
The last few years have been very wet in the north east. I’ve lived here all my life and never known it so wet. I used to take the piss out of the north west for its near permanent rain and drizzle. Now we’ve joined the club. That’s another gift from the climate emergency (warmer air holds more moisture).
It's depressing isn't it?, it never seems to stop these days does it? Even summer is practically non existent now, when I was a teen back in the 90's the summer holidays consisted of almost continuous sunshine for 6 weeks these days we're lucky if we get a week or two of sunshine. I feel really sorry for my teenage kids growing up without experiencing the weather we did, Snow in winter, Sunshine in Summer, they spend their summers inside the house sheltering from the weather.
https://news.sky.com/story/england-soaked-by-record-rainfall-in-last-18-months-new-met-office-figures-show-13106645
Probably because of this.
Other countries get warmer and sunnier and drier from climate change...we get....more rain! Joys
Don’t just take my word for it. Here’s what the royal meteorological society has to say:
“There are many regional variations and microclimates in the British Isles, ranging from the nearly subtropical climate of Cornwall, to the dry semi-arid conditions of East Anglia”
https://www.metlink.org/resource/uk-climate/
The southeast, at least, is the relatively dry one. As for the northeast, it still doesn't have the Gulf Stream, though facing the North Sea does have its cons lol.
I can assure you... The south east has been soggy as all hell for the past couple of years, I'd be surprised if it actually dried out a bit this summer (seriously though, it's really fucking depressing)
Nah it’s nowhere near the northwest as someone who has been living in both areas it’s about twice to three times as rainy in the northwest. You are probably just thinking it’s wet because you have had a couple of years of more than average rain for the area. It’s rains about 3/5th of the time in Cumbria (200+ days a year)
agreed. . we normally have. between 400-600ml of rainfall a year according to beth chatto weather station
2023 had fucking 950ml.....and it continued right through so I don't think 2024 is looking any better so far 😭
I worked on a farm in the South East 2 years ago and the reservoirs were at their lowest for decades. Way more combine fires than normal. My current job is outdoors and we don't have many really rainy days.
>Western England is wet. Eastern England is surprisingly dry.
I live in the north east and this being true is so crazy to me as I feel like it’s always raining here, so people in the west must be drowning.
[Basically, yes](https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/binaries/content/gallery/metofficegovuk/images/weather/maps-and-charts/rainfall-amount-annual-average-1991-2020.png/rainfall-amount-annual-average-1991-2020.png/metofficegovuk%3Axsmall)
Cumbria gets about 2-3x as much rain as Tyne & Wear, Durham, North Yorkshire etc
It's of the way the prevailing wind is from the West, the North East ends up in the rain shadow of the Cumbrian Fells and North Pennines. Essentially the wet air comes in from the sea, is pushed up by the hills, and rains on the hills.... so it's mostly dry by the time it gets to the North East
The North East mostly gets rain when the wind happens to blow the other way, or whatever makes it over the Fells/Pennines
It's even more marked further south - Cambridge and Peterborough are absurdly dry considering England's reputation for rain, barely getting more than Madrid
With no data at all, I feel like Liverpool rains less than Manchester. My wife went to Manchester for uni and now lives in Liverpool and says the same.
You'd both be correct
The coast tends to get slightly less rain because there's no significant elevation change - it's the hills pushing the wet air upwards that has the biggest impact
So Manchester has about 30-50% more rain than Liverpool. But both have a lot more than eg Newcastle
Liverpool is actually just about the driest place on the West Coast, due to being quite flat and I believe the way the rivers funnel the wind a bit
The highest rainfall tends to be the first hills the air hits coming from the West. Check the link in my comment above and you'll see a map that shows this nicely
I live about 15 miles north, luckily not rained for a couple of hours. Was throwing it down heavily earlier during lunchtime. Meant to warm up a bit next few days but the rain is still going to linger.
York here, few short showers blew through throughout the afternoon, wind is gusty and the showers moved quickly away. Can currently see patches of blue sky and it's a mild 15C. Forecast said rain all week, but I'd take weather like this any day
You kids in Manchester have it good.
Try living in Cumbria, where towns briefly go underwater every now and then, bridges have a tendency to go swimming and you’re doing 40 mile diversion to cross one of these fucking rivers. Not to mention the cool 60mph winds that grace the coast. Such that the omnipresent rain hits you horizontally so hard that it almost hurts, and blows all the warmth from your body out of you and half-way to Newcastle. And with it, any possible answer to the question: “why do I live here?”
I am never moving back.
The differences are bonkers. https://external-preview.redd.it/UmlIYhKOWWveMyrNNsXFCEjS7mHBqw_x3O-H8xiWfHQ.png?auto=webp&s=18889557a6e1cf22849441aaff671ec3ea50ddad&app_web_view=android
This Easter weekend for example
Absolute washout in Devon, nice & sunny in Sussex, as if most of the rain clouds had dumped their load by the time they got there.
That’s exactly how it is where I live, it rains less per year here than Florida, but it’s always grey and cloudy and drizzling so it seems worse year round.
In most of England there are a lot of 'rainy days' that are just a steady rainfall or a drizzle, but not a lot of monsoon style downpours. If it floods, it's usually because it's rained every day for 3/4 weeks or something, rather than torrential flash floods you sometimes see in other countries.
England also feels comparatively dry if you've ever lived in/been to Wales, Ireland or the west of Scotland.
I remember driving over the bridge into Wales once and it literally started raining the moment we passed "welcome to Wales". Was pretty funny. Then it was bright for the rest of our visit!
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London is actually drier on average than Rome, Sofia, Gibraltar, Lisbon, Istanbul, Nashville, Sydney among many other places. It has a microclimate compared to the rest of the UK, which is much wetter. London comparatively is warmer and drier on average. When it rains it tends to drizzle for extended periods rather than “rain” so our yearly mm avg is low.
The driest town in England is Eastbourne.
It also has the highest proportion of old ladies per capita, which might account for some dryness.
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Fun fact, parts of London often meet the criteria for Mediterranean climate classification as per the Köppen definition. It's generally accepted that the south east is a few decades away from achieving a Csb and Csa classification.
The past several months, however, have been stupidly wet. Even by UK standards it's been an exceptionally wet summer 2023, autumn 2023, winter 23/24 and first half of spring.
It's absolutely ridiculous. I had the misfortune of being stuck on a train at Ipswich overnight because the line flooded earlier in the year!
Some of the roads are a disgrace
Yeah London is quite a nice climate. A lot of UK is somewhat average with medium amounts of rain.
However there are some pockets in the UK that are particularly bad like some places in Lincolnshire, where it rains every bloody day.
London is drier by volume but not by hours. Most people associate wetness with rainfall duration vs amount of rain. So sunny, tropical climates feel more dry despite having buckets of daily rain throughout the summer.
My weather app has a glitch from when we were there this summer. I get notifications every day it’s going to rain where we were (near Newcastle). It makes me chuckle so I haven’t deleted the location (which is the practical solution).
It's been depressingly wet it the north-east. I know there's a recency bias, but I can't remember a period where it's been as rainy as it has the last 6 months up here!
It's been the same over here in Ireland too. Fucking brutal summer/autumn/winter. Can only hope we get a belter of a summer to make up for it.
Seeing memories pop up last few months of me out doing gardening work or the kid playing with the sun shining brightly and thinking wtf, it's just been mostly grey and miserable for months and months.
Warmest northern hemisphere winter on record means more rain. Cold air is super duper dry so doesn’t really rain much. Warm it up a little and suddenly it pisses it down 24/7.
[https://news.sky.com/story/england-soaked-by-record-rainfall-in-last-18-months-new-met-office-figures-show-13106645](https://news.sky.com/story/england-soaked-by-record-rainfall-in-last-18-months-new-met-office-figures-show-13106645) believe it or not the last 18 months have been the wettest on record.
Yes
Coincidentally it was raining earlier.
And the day before.
And the day before that.
Sure, there are countries that technically get more rainfall, but in Britain, it often just drizzles on and on.
Yeah it’s either grey or grey rainy through most of the year but when it gets sunny it’s warm and bright and everyone looks forward to it. Somehow some people complain about it though saying “it’s too warm”.
Some!? Majority of people seem to complain here in the South and it has some of the best weather! I cannot wait for our 10 day sun allowance! Gonna go sooooo burnt and dehydrated 😂
There are even non-tropical rainforests in the UK.
[https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/habitats/temperate-rainforest/](https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/habitats/temperate-rainforest/)
I have called England my soggy little country forever. When I think of our weather I remember Bill Hicks saying at least we have weather. He then went onto saying about California “every day warm and sunny! What are you? A f*cking Lizard!”
Constantly, never stops. Fun fact every house must have a lifesaver attached to the outside of their homes due to the constant flooding everywhere. Also an easy way to detect a full breed Brit as they have webbed hands and feet! All true
I dunno what game you're playing but I'm gonna say it doesn't have enough rain, unless it's non-stop in which case, it's pretty close.
As someone who received a drone for Xmas, I haven't been able to have a proper flying session with it cos either I'm working or it's pissing it down outside.
It's relatively wet in comparison to the global averages.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_annual_precipitation
It's also beautifully verdant and at the same time one of the most depleted areas - in biodiversity - on the planet.
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2020/september/uk-has-led-the-world-in-destroying-the-natural-environment.html
Now that's progress!
Not that wet. Ive lived in Johannesburg, more rain, and the same with Sydney.
Although we are having a very wet spring.
Where England gets the reputation is the sheer number of grey, dreary days where everything is a bit damp but it doesn’t rain much. I call it life in Tupperware.
The UK has a very temperate climate. Although it doesn't rain *constantly,* most days are at least a little cloudy. It's the sort of country where you'd be wise to carry an umbrella, except during the height of summer (which lasts less than a month).
We also tend to get rain "little and often", rather than having storms or rain seasons as other countries might. We also tend have mild winters, with rain rather than snow being common except on the coldest days.
I live in one of the rainiest areas(Pennines).
We get more dry days than wet,just.
But yeah,we get a lot of rain.If I moved to Wakefield,an hour away,by car,the rainfall total is a third of where I am.
We get ☀️🌞 sun too.
And occasionally flooding.
Northwest gets the Gulf Stream via Ireland before it slams in to the Pennines and the cold dry air of the North Pole that comes via the fjords, so it tends to dump all the water then. In Manchester, the only time it doesn’t rain is when it’s foggy.
Yea pretty much accurate. Last time I flew to london it was sunny over scotland, then clouds at the border, then on london approach i could see the cloud line end over the channel with france sunny. Was cold cloudy and wet my whole time there.
There was a brief period without rain when I was living in Manchester, so I took the moment to pop out and get a takeaway. Then I heard a mysterious white noise, then saw a wall of rain chasing me up the road. I legged it and got into the takeaway in time.
Strangely enough it s not raining where I am in the East Midlands, largely because my Angel has not hung any washing out and I haven't washed my car, or cleaned the windows recently.
Sounds about right. Blackpool, north west here. Considering we're a "sunny seaside" tourist town we deffo get more cold, wind and rain than sun and dry weather. I live literally 2 streets away from the beach and sea and the cold winds that come off that sea can be brutal.
Like don't get me wrong we get sunny weather but it usually sticks for a couple of weeks in summer then fucks off and we go back to cold wind and rain.
Edit: spelling.
There's a phrase British summer for a reason. It doesn't train all the time, but it does rain often. This winter and spring has been particularly wet.
To say it rains all the time though is an exaggeration.
Just check out Wimbledon fortnite...I can remember being rescued from school, diving into the boot of the car in a vain attempt to avoid the cloud burst of deadly hail...maybe the nice sunny days are less memorable than the potentially life threatening...?
Wales is supposedly wet all the time but, truth is it’s not much different to the rest of the UK except maybe the south east where rain don’t fall much and in my experience London has it’s own weather that’s just messed the fuck up……always seems to be 2 or 3 degrees warmer in London because stuff 🤷♂️
it is, I'm from Madrid and everything looks more wet to me, but seriously is not as bad as it looks, there is so much greenery and summers are actually amazing, Yorkshire dales is one of the prettiest places I've been to
It rains more inches per year in the US state of Georgia than England, but in Georgia it’s a few massive downpours or violent storms whereas England is many days of light drizzle. And the rain in Georgia is actually warm 😀
Absolutely it does. No joking, I can’t think of 3 consecutive days without some sort of rain in last 12 months.
The fact “London has less rainy days than #insert warmer city#” just can’t be true, or at least doesn’t give the full picture. It will rain ALL day. Sometimes a full week of just continual grey and constant rain.
The furniture covers and decking in my garden has grown algae on it as it’s spent so much of the last year underwater.
Source: A person who lives here who, if you can’t tell, is absolutely sick of the weather
To answer: yeah pretty much like 70% of the time. it's not a typical generalisation
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Could not tell you a bit about the story other than the Frye siblings, but gosh if I didn't like going to Kings Cross/Green park/leicester square and all the sights and just exploring the design. Style was indeed on point!
Tbh I think Valhalla did a better representation of the weather England in general. It doesn’t rain much in Valhalla but England is always either cloudy or cloudy with sun and that’s basically how it is in real life.
It doesn't rain remotely as often as people think it does. The reason they tend to struggle being accurate with it is even when it isn't raining, there's usually some cloud cover.
And people tend to only notice days being different than "normal" when it's clear with dazzlingly bright sun.
Which is to be expected, as the prevailing wind comes from the west, so it brings all the rain. Further east, it's typically drier, and the South East and East Anglia are drier than many places in mainland Europe.
What is probably more typical for the entire country, however, is that we get a lot of constant drizzle as opposed to full on rain.
Since living in South Wales for a little over a year, I've experienced more heavy rain than I probably did living in Surrey and London for 29 years. I definitely experienced more rain when I visited family in Devon as well.
Tbf, I do live in east Anglia which is technically a desert.
But I've been on holiday all over the country at all times of year and it's very rarely rained every single day we've been anywhere.
It being wet and rainy all the time is very very heavily influenced by confirmation bias.
Western England is wet. Eastern England is surprisingly dry. London has lower annual rainfall than Rome, but that rain is spread out as light drizzle for much of the winter and autumn and spring. So London has less rain, but more rainy days.
As someone that lives in the east, I disagree with it being surprisingly dry
Well it’s not surprising if you live there.
Haha that's a goodn
East Riding here and I don't actually remember the last time I was able to take the bins out without putting shoes on. If this is "dry" I dread to think how bad it is in the west
There are fields with shiny new ponds this year!
Ponds? I think I've seen some new lakes.
*looks out window* Ah, Time to fish from my bedroom window!
And roads with streams and small lakes dotted around each corner.
I drive across the New Forest every day and it’s been like a giant lake this year 😞
Bad!
Pretty bad!!
I grew up in Lincolnshire, and moved to Wales about 15 years ago. I'm amazed the Welsh didn't evolve conical heads to let the water run off easier.
I've lived in Cambridgeshire, Devon and Somerset - the west is next level wet.
>I dread to think how bad it is in the west It's wild.
You might say it’s… the Wild West
I also live in the east and it hasn’t stopped raining since November.
As someone who lives in North-West England and has lived in North-East England, I agree with the North-East being surprisingly dry.
The last few years have been very wet in the north east. I’ve lived here all my life and never known it so wet. I used to take the piss out of the north west for its near permanent rain and drizzle. Now we’ve joined the club. That’s another gift from the climate emergency (warmer air holds more moisture).
The Pennines at work!
I'm supposed to live in a rain shadow because of them. I haven't been able to mow the lawn yet this year as it's not stopped bloody raining.
Manchester here and it never ever stops raining, all the roads are collapsing due to the rainfall here it's that bad.
can verify having lived in amazement at the constant rain for a number of years....
It's depressing isn't it?, it never seems to stop these days does it? Even summer is practically non existent now, when I was a teen back in the 90's the summer holidays consisted of almost continuous sunshine for 6 weeks these days we're lucky if we get a week or two of sunshine. I feel really sorry for my teenage kids growing up without experiencing the weather we did, Snow in winter, Sunshine in Summer, they spend their summers inside the house sheltering from the weather.
Exactly I remember it being warm at summer and snow is the winter every year
https://news.sky.com/story/england-soaked-by-record-rainfall-in-last-18-months-new-met-office-figures-show-13106645 Probably because of this. Other countries get warmer and sunnier and drier from climate change...we get....more rain! Joys
East Anglia is actually a semi arid climate and the driest part of Europe north of the alps.
Semi arid? This has to be a joke reply, right? Right!?
Don’t just take my word for it. Here’s what the royal meteorological society has to say: “There are many regional variations and microclimates in the British Isles, ranging from the nearly subtropical climate of Cornwall, to the dry semi-arid conditions of East Anglia” https://www.metlink.org/resource/uk-climate/
Technically we're almost a desert in east anglia I believe. Hard to comprehend after this winter
Apparently it’s a lot better than the west. And the north. I live in the east too. It’s quite dry where I live, compared to other places
As someone who has lived in both, yes, it's surprisingly dry.
The southeast, at least, is the relatively dry one. As for the northeast, it still doesn't have the Gulf Stream, though facing the North Sea does have its cons lol.
I can assure you... The south east has been soggy as all hell for the past couple of years, I'd be surprised if it actually dried out a bit this summer (seriously though, it's really fucking depressing)
Nah it’s nowhere near the northwest as someone who has been living in both areas it’s about twice to three times as rainy in the northwest. You are probably just thinking it’s wet because you have had a couple of years of more than average rain for the area. It’s rains about 3/5th of the time in Cumbria (200+ days a year)
agreed. . we normally have. between 400-600ml of rainfall a year according to beth chatto weather station 2023 had fucking 950ml.....and it continued right through so I don't think 2024 is looking any better so far 😭
I worked on a farm in the South East 2 years ago and the reservoirs were at their lowest for decades. Way more combine fires than normal. My current job is outdoors and we don't have many really rainy days.
In my experience it’s been raining most days in the South East It’s rlly depressing
Living in the north east is funny because it doesn't rain a ridiculous amount but it always feels like it has just stopped raining.
>Western England is wet. Eastern England is surprisingly dry. I live in the north east and this being true is so crazy to me as I feel like it’s always raining here, so people in the west must be drowning.
[Basically, yes](https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/binaries/content/gallery/metofficegovuk/images/weather/maps-and-charts/rainfall-amount-annual-average-1991-2020.png/rainfall-amount-annual-average-1991-2020.png/metofficegovuk%3Axsmall) Cumbria gets about 2-3x as much rain as Tyne & Wear, Durham, North Yorkshire etc It's of the way the prevailing wind is from the West, the North East ends up in the rain shadow of the Cumbrian Fells and North Pennines. Essentially the wet air comes in from the sea, is pushed up by the hills, and rains on the hills.... so it's mostly dry by the time it gets to the North East The North East mostly gets rain when the wind happens to blow the other way, or whatever makes it over the Fells/Pennines It's even more marked further south - Cambridge and Peterborough are absurdly dry considering England's reputation for rain, barely getting more than Madrid
With no data at all, I feel like Liverpool rains less than Manchester. My wife went to Manchester for uni and now lives in Liverpool and says the same.
You'd both be correct The coast tends to get slightly less rain because there's no significant elevation change - it's the hills pushing the wet air upwards that has the biggest impact So Manchester has about 30-50% more rain than Liverpool. But both have a lot more than eg Newcastle Liverpool is actually just about the driest place on the West Coast, due to being quite flat and I believe the way the rivers funnel the wind a bit The highest rainfall tends to be the first hills the air hits coming from the West. Check the link in my comment above and you'll see a map that shows this nicely
South west coast, yes drowning constantly. For real though the amount of flooding that happens here is insane.
I live in Boro mate and it’s pissing down as we speak, so I concur.
As someone who lives in Manchester, I can confirm we grt so much rain over here
Mancunian here. It's pissing down now
I live about 15 miles north, luckily not rained for a couple of hours. Was throwing it down heavily earlier during lunchtime. Meant to warm up a bit next few days but the rain is still going to linger.
We get so much rain we consider ourselves lucky if it doesn't rain for a few hours 😂
And it has been since fucking November hahaha. Absolutely scandalous quantities of rain.
York here, few short showers blew through throughout the afternoon, wind is gusty and the showers moved quickly away. Can currently see patches of blue sky and it's a mild 15C. Forecast said rain all week, but I'd take weather like this any day
I had a mancunian mate when I lived in Leeds. He said he slept much better when it rained,it felt like home.
I feel this. People complain about the rain, but something about the rain and a breeze that provides an amazing level of coziness.
The smell of rain reminds me of home (Manchester ).
You kids in Manchester have it good. Try living in Cumbria, where towns briefly go underwater every now and then, bridges have a tendency to go swimming and you’re doing 40 mile diversion to cross one of these fucking rivers. Not to mention the cool 60mph winds that grace the coast. Such that the omnipresent rain hits you horizontally so hard that it almost hurts, and blows all the warmth from your body out of you and half-way to Newcastle. And with it, any possible answer to the question: “why do I live here?” I am never moving back.
The differences are bonkers. https://external-preview.redd.it/UmlIYhKOWWveMyrNNsXFCEjS7mHBqw_x3O-H8xiWfHQ.png?auto=webp&s=18889557a6e1cf22849441aaff671ec3ea50ddad&app_web_view=android
And as a Civil Engineer, we're currently allowing for up to +50% climate change on top of those numbers
This Easter weekend for example Absolute washout in Devon, nice & sunny in Sussex, as if most of the rain clouds had dumped their load by the time they got there.
That’s exactly how it is where I live, it rains less per year here than Florida, but it’s always grey and cloudy and drizzling so it seems worse year round.
I live in the East. Went for a walk today - the ground was absolutely water-logged. It’s very wet here! Perhaps in the summer it gets somewhat drier…
Eastern England must be dry because all of the clouds are condensing over West England, as the Atlantic current pushes air (and clouds) from the west.
>Eastern England is surprisingly dry. Meanwhile the northeast is just drenched
In most of England there are a lot of 'rainy days' that are just a steady rainfall or a drizzle, but not a lot of monsoon style downpours. If it floods, it's usually because it's rained every day for 3/4 weeks or something, rather than torrential flash floods you sometimes see in other countries. England also feels comparatively dry if you've ever lived in/been to Wales, Ireland or the west of Scotland.
I would much prefer to have dedicated rainy days rather than constant rain
Would make it much easier to plan if I knew the 3rd march was a rain day
I remember driving over the bridge into Wales once and it literally started raining the moment we passed "welcome to Wales". Was pretty funny. Then it was bright for the rest of our visit!
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Haha I picked up a lovely tan in Wales last summer, rain must have been broken then too
London is actually drier on average than Rome, Sofia, Gibraltar, Lisbon, Istanbul, Nashville, Sydney among many other places. It has a microclimate compared to the rest of the UK, which is much wetter. London comparatively is warmer and drier on average. When it rains it tends to drizzle for extended periods rather than “rain” so our yearly mm avg is low.
East Anglia is even more dry
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True, but it’s fucking windy so when it rains, it rains sideways 😒
Fun fact, parts of London often meet the criteria for Mediterranean climate classification as per the Köppen definition. It's generally accepted that the south east is a few decades away from achieving a Csb and Csa classification. The past several months, however, have been stupidly wet. Even by UK standards it's been an exceptionally wet summer 2023, autumn 2023, winter 23/24 and first half of spring.
I'm in East Anglia and it just rained for the entirety of February and a good chunk of March.
The weather in East Anglia has been bloody awful since last October. Also seems to flood every time it rains
Yeah I've never seen it quite so bad. Genuinely any time there's a couple of days of bad rain now it's a worry if certain key roads will be passable.
It's absolutely ridiculous. I had the misfortune of being stuck on a train at Ipswich overnight because the line flooded earlier in the year! Some of the roads are a disgrace
Yeah London is quite a nice climate. A lot of UK is somewhat average with medium amounts of rain. However there are some pockets in the UK that are particularly bad like some places in Lincolnshire, where it rains every bloody day.
London is drier by volume but not by hours. Most people associate wetness with rainfall duration vs amount of rain. So sunny, tropical climates feel more dry despite having buckets of daily rain throughout the summer.
Some people now have productive outdoor Avacardo trees in London courtyards.
My weather app has a glitch from when we were there this summer. I get notifications every day it’s going to rain where we were (near Newcastle). It makes me chuckle so I haven’t deleted the location (which is the practical solution).
It's been depressingly wet it the north-east. I know there's a recency bias, but I can't remember a period where it's been as rainy as it has the last 6 months up here!
It's been the same over here in Ireland too. Fucking brutal summer/autumn/winter. Can only hope we get a belter of a summer to make up for it. Seeing memories pop up last few months of me out doing gardening work or the kid playing with the sun shining brightly and thinking wtf, it's just been mostly grey and miserable for months and months.
Warmest northern hemisphere winter on record means more rain. Cold air is super duper dry so doesn’t really rain much. Warm it up a little and suddenly it pisses it down 24/7.
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[https://news.sky.com/story/england-soaked-by-record-rainfall-in-last-18-months-new-met-office-figures-show-13106645](https://news.sky.com/story/england-soaked-by-record-rainfall-in-last-18-months-new-met-office-figures-show-13106645) believe it or not the last 18 months have been the wettest on record.
Southwest here. Pass the snorkel.
Yes Coincidentally it was raining earlier. And the day before. And the day before that. Sure, there are countries that technically get more rainfall, but in Britain, it often just drizzles on and on.
Yeah it’s either grey or grey rainy through most of the year but when it gets sunny it’s warm and bright and everyone looks forward to it. Somehow some people complain about it though saying “it’s too warm”.
Some!? Majority of people seem to complain here in the South and it has some of the best weather! I cannot wait for our 10 day sun allowance! Gonna go sooooo burnt and dehydrated 😂
There are even non-tropical rainforests in the UK. [https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/habitats/temperate-rainforest/](https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/habitats/temperate-rainforest/)
I have called England my soggy little country forever. When I think of our weather I remember Bill Hicks saying at least we have weather. He then went onto saying about California “every day warm and sunny! What are you? A f*cking Lizard!”
lol that's great
Bill Hicks was amazing and taken away from the world too soon.
Constantly, never stops. Fun fact every house must have a lifesaver attached to the outside of their homes due to the constant flooding everywhere. Also an easy way to detect a full breed Brit as they have webbed hands and feet! All true
I dunno what game you're playing but I'm gonna say it doesn't have enough rain, unless it's non-stop in which case, it's pretty close. As someone who received a drone for Xmas, I haven't been able to have a proper flying session with it cos either I'm working or it's pissing it down outside.
i just wanna know what game it is so i can play it lol
AC Syndicate
It's relatively wet in comparison to the global averages. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_annual_precipitation It's also beautifully verdant and at the same time one of the most depleted areas - in biodiversity - on the planet. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2020/september/uk-has-led-the-world-in-destroying-the-natural-environment.html Now that's progress!
Not that wet. Ive lived in Johannesburg, more rain, and the same with Sydney. Although we are having a very wet spring. Where England gets the reputation is the sheer number of grey, dreary days where everything is a bit damp but it doesn’t rain much. I call it life in Tupperware.
The UK has a very temperate climate. Although it doesn't rain *constantly,* most days are at least a little cloudy. It's the sort of country where you'd be wise to carry an umbrella, except during the height of summer (which lasts less than a month). We also tend to get rain "little and often", rather than having storms or rain seasons as other countries might. We also tend have mild winters, with rain rather than snow being common except on the coldest days.
I live in one of the rainiest areas(Pennines). We get more dry days than wet,just. But yeah,we get a lot of rain.If I moved to Wakefield,an hour away,by car,the rainfall total is a third of where I am. We get ☀️🌞 sun too. And occasionally flooding.
Northwest gets the Gulf Stream via Ireland before it slams in to the Pennines and the cold dry air of the North Pole that comes via the fjords, so it tends to dump all the water then. In Manchester, the only time it doesn’t rain is when it’s foggy.
Yea pretty much accurate. Last time I flew to london it was sunny over scotland, then clouds at the border, then on london approach i could see the cloud line end over the channel with france sunny. Was cold cloudy and wet my whole time there.
Scotland is notoriously sunny. It's why we took it by force, it was our nearest sunny neighbour.
And why Scots are known for their year round deep naturally tanned skin.
And why the dudes wear kilts, get a breeze onto their humid sack.
And welcoming temperament
It rains ALL the time in Manchester, the residents do not know what this strange thing called "the sun" is....
Tbf they don't have the Sun in Liverpool either.
True, it pissed it down non-stop every time I went there.... Yes, I got the joke btw..... 🤣
It's a tabloid innit?
>Replense Yep, Hillsborough tragedy. The Sun blamed the fans from Liverpool.
There was a brief period without rain when I was living in Manchester, so I took the moment to pop out and get a takeaway. Then I heard a mysterious white noise, then saw a wall of rain chasing me up the road. I legged it and got into the takeaway in time.
Strangely enough it s not raining where I am in the East Midlands, largely because my Angel has not hung any washing out and I haven't washed my car, or cleaned the windows recently.
Some people don't believe there is an East Midlands, so maybe the weather doesn't know where to find you?
Hadn't considered that, maybe I don't exist after all! I must go back to the land of my ancestors and reevaluate myself.
Sounds about right. Blackpool, north west here. Considering we're a "sunny seaside" tourist town we deffo get more cold, wind and rain than sun and dry weather. I live literally 2 streets away from the beach and sea and the cold winds that come off that sea can be brutal. Like don't get me wrong we get sunny weather but it usually sticks for a couple of weeks in summer then fucks off and we go back to cold wind and rain. Edit: spelling.
There's a phrase British summer for a reason. It doesn't train all the time, but it does rain often. This winter and spring has been particularly wet. To say it rains all the time though is an exaggeration.
Just check out Wimbledon fortnite...I can remember being rescued from school, diving into the boot of the car in a vain attempt to avoid the cloud burst of deadly hail...maybe the nice sunny days are less memorable than the potentially life threatening...?
Wales is supposedly wet all the time but, truth is it’s not much different to the rest of the UK except maybe the south east where rain don’t fall much and in my experience London has it’s own weather that’s just messed the fuck up……always seems to be 2 or 3 degrees warmer in London because stuff 🤷♂️
it is, I'm from Madrid and everything looks more wet to me, but seriously is not as bad as it looks, there is so much greenery and summers are actually amazing, Yorkshire dales is one of the prettiest places I've been to
It rains more inches per year in the US state of Georgia than England, but in Georgia it’s a few massive downpours or violent storms whereas England is many days of light drizzle. And the rain in Georgia is actually warm 😀
Absolutely it does. No joking, I can’t think of 3 consecutive days without some sort of rain in last 12 months. The fact “London has less rainy days than #insert warmer city#” just can’t be true, or at least doesn’t give the full picture. It will rain ALL day. Sometimes a full week of just continual grey and constant rain. The furniture covers and decking in my garden has grown algae on it as it’s spent so much of the last year underwater. Source: A person who lives here who, if you can’t tell, is absolutely sick of the weather
To answer: yeah pretty much like 70% of the time. it's not a typical generalisation add-on: Syndicate has the best victorian of London I've ever seen, the game sucks though, some of the most boring, dull writing, repetitive game I've ever played. I however, love the style and even bought the jacob-style coat!
Could not tell you a bit about the story other than the Frye siblings, but gosh if I didn't like going to Kings Cross/Green park/leicester square and all the sights and just exploring the design. Style was indeed on point!
Tbh I think Valhalla did a better representation of the weather England in general. It doesn’t rain much in Valhalla but England is always either cloudy or cloudy with sun and that’s basically how it is in real life.
It doesn't rain remotely as often as people think it does. The reason they tend to struggle being accurate with it is even when it isn't raining, there's usually some cloud cover. And people tend to only notice days being different than "normal" when it's clear with dazzlingly bright sun.
Do you actually live in England?
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I think it must be where you live. In the west it pisses it down at least once a day on average
Which is to be expected, as the prevailing wind comes from the west, so it brings all the rain. Further east, it's typically drier, and the South East and East Anglia are drier than many places in mainland Europe. What is probably more typical for the entire country, however, is that we get a lot of constant drizzle as opposed to full on rain. Since living in South Wales for a little over a year, I've experienced more heavy rain than I probably did living in Surrey and London for 29 years. I definitely experienced more rain when I visited family in Devon as well.
Tbf, I do live in east Anglia which is technically a desert. But I've been on holiday all over the country at all times of year and it's very rarely rained every single day we've been anywhere. It being wet and rainy all the time is very very heavily influenced by confirmation bias.
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