Anyone else love the rain?

There's a common social conditioning that rainy, storms, clouds, whatever, is associated with depression and sadness. But I love both the dark, cold weather and rain (I live in Australia and so I get it very rarely). It's not the best to move about it, but waking up to it or having it on the weekends is the best thing ever. It's raining right now and I feel so much more motiviated to get things done than I would if the sun was blaring down..

Anyone else?

Depends on the location. If I'm in a cool, temperate place, rain and wind just makes everything even colder and nastier. But in hot, tropical places, rain is a relief from the heat and therefore very welcome.

I love it as well. As long as it's not real cold I also really enjoy being outside in a good downpour. It feels quite refreshing.

I live in a town in Washington that is right on the coast. Right on sea level, with no mountain covering to shield from rain. You literally dont get more WESTSYYYYYDE!! than me. I dont dislike it, and dont like it. It's just something you get used to. Playing highschool football, baseball and track in pouring rains was normal. If you have every tried to throw a shotput or discus in hard rain, you get used to simply standing or walking in it.

Here in my part (and most parts) of California we get sunshine and clear skies for like 300 days of the year so, yeah, I love the rain. I would prefer more rainy days to be honest. More overcast, cool days.

Seems like for the past few years we get this trend of:

-maybe two or three weeks of "freezing" weather (lows of high-20s at night, high-40s/low-50s during the day) during winter. We'll get maybe two or three weeks of rain IF we are lucky.

-then it goes straight to sunshine and early spring around February, and before you know it, it's 80 degrees and you're sweating your ass off and you want to punch every mother f***** in the face that says "Oh man nice day isn't it" no ITS NOT WE NEED MORE RAIN!

-Then the rest of the year it is, you guessed it, sun sun sun and maybe two weeks total of rain. Summer will hit and then it's basically the opposite of winter where we might get 2-3 weeks of 95-105 degree days, but then it tapers off into fairly pleasant days for the most part after that.

Anyone I work with quite a few out of state folks and when they first moved here they loved it, especially the midwest folks like from Minnesota and Wisconsin and whatnot. One guy went to UC Santa Cruz, turned into a surfer, and pretty much went surfing like every single day (ironically, the water there is cold enough to give you hypothermia most of the year).

I know as a native Californian I take my state's weather for granted, but I like the rain and would really like some more of it. We got a lot of it this past season, and it was really, really nice.

@mrbojangles25:

Yeah, as someone who can attest to being on the other side of that story, I can tell you that it's all relative. I pretty much grew up in Suffolk, England, where it was either cloudy or raining and you could go whole months without seeing a ray of sunshine. Then I moved to Christchurch, New Zealand, and I found the increased sunshine really refreshing; I was especially amazed with those days in the middle of winter when it was just clear blue sky with hardly a cloud in sight. Still cold, but sunny - I'd take that over cold and gloomy any day.

But the locals? They're just "eh." Better than West Coast and Auckland, where it rains all the time, and better than Wellington, which is built in a wind tunnel, but not as good as Hawke's Bay, or the Gold Coast across the ditch. There are a lot of Kiwis in the Gold Coast; I'm sure the Aussies over there​ think much the same as you.

Standing in the rain can be quite refreshing.

Not a big fan, but it can be used to help plants and food grow.

Live in Australia myself and do love the rain! I live in a very wet and cold town just outside of Melbourne, so we get a fair bit during winter but I still love it. Something about it just makes it nice and calm

You should have joined us in Queensland a couple days ago.

Errrr no thanks. Have family up there and they said it was pretty intense. Hope you made it out ok!

Heh, heard it was pretty bad. Seconding the "hope you're all a-okay" thoughts.

And yeah, Melbourne tends to be colder and wetter than Sydney is. Although we did have a period in late March here where it was raining everyday for a week and a half.

Melbourne basically symbolizes 4 seasons in 1 day

I'm only happy when it rains. Hope you don't think I'm Garbage.

-Byshop

@popgotcha: @ShadowsDemon: Thanks. My place wasn't affected and I don't know anyone, personally, who was affected. I think they found a 3rd body, and some people are still missing. A billion dollars in damages.

Bloody hell - that's awful. Take care of yourself, I guess.

I like the rain as it an excuse to stay in and play computer games.

Yeah...I hate when it rains and I have to drive to work in the rain. And I hate when I get stuck in the rain and end up getting completely soaking wet.

But as long as I'm warm and dry and I don't have to go anywhere, it's really cool to be able to stay inside and WATCH it rain. Hell, if nothing else, it's kind of a good excuse to be lazy. "Well, there's lots of stuff I'm SUPPOSED to go out and do today, but it wouldn't really be safe in this weather. It would be more responsible to put that off until tomorrow, and spend today lying on the sofa while watching movies and eating popcorn."

I do like rain. The smell, pattering sound, the wet look of the world. It's also the perfect weather for gaming.

Heh. My day job is a laborer so when it rains I literally *have* no work, because it's pouring down with rain and it's a little hard to get the power tools and welded out when rivers of water are gushing around your legs. Today was one of those days.

So I stay home and write or read or play games and it is good. :)

That's pretty much what I wanted to say. Even here, if we have a hot summer, it's great to have a light rain. But walking to work with a storm by 5°C is horrible.

Feels like the sun is never out it's always gloomy who is controlling the thermostat!

If I'm in my bed I open the window, the plop plops help me sleep.

I love it as well...........winter is my favorite season.

@ShadowsDemon: Don't really enjoy it, but we've gotta have some every now and then otherwise life wouldn't be as great.

Plus it ruins my Parkour sessions when I want to train outside.

rains here constantly in the fall/winter and sometimes spring (like this year) where I live (west coast of Canada). sometimes in October/november it will rain every day for weeks on end. this year has been particularly wet, I don't think we have had 4-5 rain/snow free days in a row since September.

its just sorta a fact of life here. its normal.

Must be great gaming weather, though. Kinda hard to justify sitting indoors and gluing your eyes to the screen while it's showering sun outside...

My favorite thing in the world is petrichor, the really nice soily smell you get when it rains after a long period of hot weather.

It comes in handy for 2 reasons.

1. When you have consecutive days of heat waves and a quick shower storm comes feels good.

2. Free shoe wash.

I too love dark, stormy days and love rain in general. I find it relaxing. Autumn is my favorite season. When I was little, I used to watch a lot of horror movies and read a lot of paranormal books to which stormy weather outside made all the more engrossing. I also like it when it's very foggy out with rain.

@pimphand_gamer: "I also like it when it's very foggy "

I like foggy settings.

I personally associate rain with warmer weather. It doesn't rain if it's -20 outside.

While Melbourne is generally cooler, Sydney has nearly double the rainfall.

Nope. Here in Arizona, rain is usually accompanied by thunder and lightning. If not those two, then dust storms/haboobs.

Hmm. Everytime I'm down there it's always wet and raining. Then again, Sydney is half-tropical...

My gf and I put up a sheet metal roof over our deck. Any roof would keep the sun off, but for those rare times when we have a good rain nothing beats the sound of it hitting on a sheet metal roof. I can sit out there for hours when it rains.

i do. living in Ireland i get no shortage of it. i prefer if its the evening time or a day off or something so i dont get wet. but i love when its raining and im in doors with a fire on. snuggy.

i also love lightening, thunder and snow: things we very rarely get here :(. i love walking in a fresh layer of snow.

i dont like high winds or really humid weather though...blech. i remember dreading going to spain because i thought the heat would be awful. but it was lovely. a nice dry heat that actually gave me energy. in ireland a hot day is horrible. its muggy and humid and draining. i generally sit out of it until the evening time when it has cooled down a bit.

I like rain. It's calming to hear it pouring outside. Not a fan of getting wet though. :P

Absolutely! I've always loved the rain. It's been raining a lot here lately as it always tends to in the springtime!

depends.

it's also fun to play soccer in and i love the crazy thunderstorms that you get in the summer

generally day to day though i prefer sunshine.

I find it lovely and cozy when I am indoors - especially at night time.

Not much fun to travel in, and it stinks for those less fortunate than us who have no home.

What part of Ireland are you from? I heard there's a part of Ireland that gets abnormally high heat waves in summer...

@ShadowsDemon:

Can't be Dublin anyway. That's just grey all year round.

There is a joke that when you get a day of sun, it's the whole summer.

I love rain, only, if I don't need to go somewhere and I may stay home and sleep))

@ShadowsDemon: heatwaves are a complete lottery. last year i think he had maybe a week of heatwave weather (by irish standards anyway). then it was just near constant cloud cover and the temp barely getting north of 20c during the summer months.

the winters over the last few years have also been pretty mild.

Ireland is very small so generally there isnt any great difference in weather from region to region.

I love the rain. Being in Denver, it doesn't rain nearly enough and when it does rain in the summer, the rain never lasts long enough to drop the temperature a few degrees.

Oh man how you can love rain? I don't like getting wet... ;/ It's horrible

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I like thunderstorms at night, perfect time for sex!

Yeah that's what I heard. I was in Europe a few months back (not Ireland though) and while it was pretty cold, it wasn't too bad...

Long as the temperature is warm enough......like a good storm at night.