It rains more in New York, it rains more in Paris, but no one moans about those cities do they? Yes, it rains here... but often it rains just a little and not for long. For example, it rained today... for about an hour around 7 a.m. I can't say that it's been sunny for the rest of the day, but my garden is sparkling, the roses are blooming, and the birds are bringing their babies out to find worms in the soft soil. What's not to like? I think Americans often complain because they come unprepared. If you slop around in cargo shorts, open sandals, and T-shirts, expect to get wet when it rains.

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England wouldn't have a 'green and pleasant land' if it didn't rain. We just accept it

Rain is wonderful. My favourite weather is a thunderstorm with heavy rain.

Swansea is in Wales.

The Lake District is, imo, the most beautiful place on earth.

According to the Met Office Climate data, over the 30 year period (1991 -2020), there were 106.5 days of rainfall in London per year on average (which counts as a day in which 1mm of rainfall or over fell). This means that there was rainfall on 29 per cent of days per year and on average it didn’t rain 71 per cent of days per year. Average rainfall is 557.4mm with 1410 “sunshine hours.” There are more rainy days in Miami (at 135) and Orlando, Florida (117) than there are in London. New York City clocks in at 122 days and 1,268mm of rain. Washington DC, Rio de Janeiro, Sydney, and Mexico City all have more rainy days on average in any given year than London.

I used to live near the Lake District. It was my childhood paradise, utterly beautiful.

The title of the video is more than a tad misleading. It rains somewhere in Britain on 199 days of each year - rarely everywhere at once. A "rain day" means precipitation of at least 0.2mm, not that it rains cats & dogs!

I decided to look at the figures for Coningsby, Lincolnshire, east of the Pennine hills as there is a weather station there and in 2022 it reached the record temperature of 40.3°C (104.5°F). The latest figures online are for 2019/2020 and are 113 days when it rained 1mm or more of rain (about 0.04") in a year and the total rainfall in that year was 594mm (23.4").

Here’s an interesting fact, London gets less rain than even Sydney by volume of rain. Most of the rain in the UK falls as light rain. I love the Lake District but there are too many tourists, so I prefer Scotland for similar scenery

Something to remember it doesn’t rain everywhere at the same time and it doesn’t rain the same length of time each time, and it doesnt rain the same ammount each time. So it can be deceptive, we can go a few weeks dry the a few days with 2 weeks worth of rain. The actual distinction in uk weather is it can change quickly and often.

Wien I lived in LA the first rain I saw was around November time and by then I was so friggin bored of blue sky and endless sun when the rainy days came it was SUCH a novelty I couldn’t stop looking out the window wherever I was and smile - rain! It’s raining! Wow! 😂 I went back to London and NEVER complained about rain or snow again - London gets everything All the seasons - LA only get summer and British summer - it never gets more than that - and variety is the spice of life. FYI mr cali - you’ve been sorely missed - welcome back and don’t leave it so long next time x

199 days of rain a year and still we have hosepipe bans in summer. All the water in the world and all in the wrong place. You have to love it 😂

The constant grey wet weather means that when we do get a few weeks of beautiful blue skies and sunshine (which we do pretty much every year in summer) then everyone is so happy and out enjoying it that it makes it all that much more special!

I’ve spent my whole life walking, climbing and camping in the Lake District. I’m 70 and have been going since I was 1. I love the place. I live about an hours drive, but am thinking of moving closer.

The issue isn't so much the rain but the days when it isn't raining it's still pretty sh!tty weather. It's now nearly June and we've probably had 5 warm sunny days so far this year

Sydney gets more rain than London, the joy of living in a temperate climate, big up to the jet stream

Another commenter has rightly said that the Lake District had 12 inches of rain in 24 hours. 2009. Two inches they could easily have coped with. And I've heard of figures of 160 inches per year for the tops of thr mountains. Wales - where Swansea is - is notorious for rain. In Welsh it doesn't rain "cats and dogs", but "old ladies and sticks"! More of a problem for most of us in England is that - whilst the quantity of rain isn't great - we get small amounts quite frequently. Sometimes we long for the sun.

Swansea is in Wales. I’m convinced that parts of north Wales get it worse then anywhere in England.

I’ve just been out in the local countryside with my dog. It’s pouring down. Big deal. No such thing as bad weather, just inappropriate clothing.

Lake District is by far the best part of England for scenery imo, have had several photography trips there but sadly the 6hr drive is too much for us now. The rain does get depressing at times but, typical of British optimism, my convertible sits in the garage waiting for the odd nice weekend!

UK is a Northerly island with three weather fronts coming mostly from the stormy Atlantic Ocean. The weather changes about every ten minutes some days and as in the last weekend of cloudless blue skies, we have been severely punished in the last few days. I think the equation is something like - one hour of sunshine equals two days of drizzle and dullness. London has been reported in recent times to have had less rainfall than New York, Paris France and even Sydney Australia. Soon, we are going to struggle with water supplies to London and the Government are considering flooding huge parts of the area surrounding it to make an extra reservoir/dam. Some parts of the UK are very wet and even these places sometimes have water restrictions in place at certain times. The reservoirs/dams were built mainly in the seventies when the population was about half what it is at present. More and more cars are needing washing and ninety-nine percent of housholds have a washing machine and a lot also have dishwashers. Regards from Halifax, Yorkshire, UK.

I live in the middle of the UK and I can easily go one month without rain .

The Met Office have 30 different classifications for weather that match up with weather symbols on weather forecasts (not including weather warnings and health alerts). Of those, 1 is for mist, 1 is for fog, 4 are for cloud, 10 are for rain (from "drizzle" through to "thunder" - partly thundery is "thunder shower"), 3 are for sleet, 3 are for hail, and 6 are for snow. So, 6 weather symbols for different cloudy conditions, 22 for precipitation conditions, 1 for cloudless sunny day, and 1 for a cloudless night. The current weather at my location is "cloudy" (not to be mistaken for "partly cloudy" where the sun can break through the clouds, or "overcast" which is basically "cloudy" with darker clouds). What the current weather forecast is where I am: today is cloudy, tomorrow is sunny, Sunday is thunderstorms (too much of a generalisation, Sunday's weather symbols are "light rain", "thunder", "thunder shower", "heavy rain shower", and partly cloudy with a chance of moonlight), Monday is rainy with some sunshine, Tuesday is cloudy, Wednesday is cloudy with a chance of rain, and Thursday is cloudy with some sunshine and a chance of rain. Of course, it is too early to tell what the weather will be at 7 AM tomorrow because you need to double-check the forecast at about 6 AM to get a better approximation of what the weather might be - that less than 5% chance of rain does not mean it is definitely not going to rain. I'll only need a jacket this week (perhaps an umbrella on Sunday depending on if I trust the forecast or my looking at the sky more), but I've only looked at Watford's forecast - if I were to go to Hemel Hempstead or London (i.e. travel 16 miles away) I would need to look at different forecasts. I've been in a Florida downpour ("heavy rain shower") that lasted about 30 minutes before. I didn't even know warm rain was possible until my one and only experience of it.

The stats for England as a nation are skewed by the north a fair bit (and more so if you look at the full UK, with northern Scotland included). It rains a lot in Northern Europe for sure, but the south has less generally speaking. I only say this as photos of London are often used to generalise the whole region (understandably as the capital), but it does tend to be 'warmer' and 'dryer' down here. But the weather can be very, very changable. Cold in the morning, warmer later, rain in the afternoon, then sun, then heavy cloud and wind. Makes it hard to dress appropriately in spring and autumn! But if cold, grey and generally quite miserable counts towards the same sentiment, then yes it's not great - summer can feel very short! But it makes it all the sweeter when it comes around.

The Lake District is my happy place, living 40min away, it’s where I go if I don’t have to be here.

It all depends. It could be lovely where I am and the next valley over it could be chucking it down! So no it doesn’t rain all the time but we are used to it. Swansea is in South Wales.❤

the average rainfall in mid Wales?annual totals averaging 55 inches (1,385 mm) for the country as a whole. There is no markedly wet or dry season; roughly 4 inches (88 mm) of precipitation are recorded in April, whereas 6 inches (142 mm) are typical in January.. Today it started off 8 degrees C ended the day at 14 C its been raining on and off and lovely and sunny all day ,

A university professor told me more than 15 years ago that in the future fresh drinking water is going to me more valued than gold. I thought he was nuts at the time. With every year that goes by I understand more and more what he means. We are very lucky in the UK to have a varied climate that provides plenty of rain. It won't be long before our climate is the envy of most of the world.

See Seattle for actual, proper, no-messing-about rain. In the UK, you'll be very unlucky to get rained on that much.

The lake district isn't like a national park, it is officially one, just a UK one not a US one 😅

A lot of what was said in this package is not relevant - 2.4 inches of rain is no national record - or even for Seathwaite! [The UK location specific rainfall record in 24 hours is 279.4 mm or 11 inches on 18 July 1955 in Martinstown, Dorset] As I am writing this, the past 28 hours has seen 89.8 mm or 3.54 inches of rain in the same location [Seathwaite Farm raingauge] - 3.4 of which fell in the 24 hour period 9am 22 May to 9am 23 May 2024! As was mentioned though there are lots a variability across the UK - It doesn't rain 199 days a year everywhere in The UK - this is an average and it doesn't compare the amount of rain with the number of days like say in San Francisco - which has almost identical total rainfall to London. For comparison... The main difference is the distribution of that rain - most of the rain in San Francisco falls between November and April - (55 of of the 68 days or 22.5 of the 24 inches of rain falls between November and April) In London the rainfall is distributed almost equally throughout the year, although the number of rain days is slightly lower in Spring and Summer (a total of 110 days a year) and between November and April there are an average of 60 rain days and a total of 12.5 inches between November and April from a total of 24 inches per year - or just over 600mm! So San Francisco gets 93.5% in the 6 months of November to April And London gets about 52.5% in that same 6 month period...almost half and half! Both cities get the same amount of rainfall in a year, but the distribution is significantly different! Also these figures vary slightly depending on where you take the readings - London covers about 600 square miles and San Francisco covers less than 100 square miles. In addition, from year to year I'm sure San Francisco has just as a weather variability pattern as London. This example is just London [and San Francisco] and is not entirely representative of the whole of the UK - or indeed California, but does illustrate how individual places can vary and be similar in totality; but have such different weather patterns - the most significant of which is probably sunshine... London having a total of about 1630 hours and San Francisco has about 3030 hours! (London gets about 52 hours in December vs San Francisco 161 hours of sunshine - December being the dullest month in both locations and in July [the sunniest in both locations] London gets 212 hours vs San Francisco getting 313 hours - In every month San Francisco gets more sun than London on average!) There are plenty of places in both The US and around The World that get more rain than The UK - it just tends to be warmer rain! 🤣 I would have compared Los Angeles with London...but, there is no comparison, tbh...it's one of the reasons Hollywood became established in LA, after all! 😂👍

Climate change has changed this. Fewer rainy days, but MUCH MORE rain, so every time it rains, somewhere gets flooded!

I'd rather have our rain than the rain America gets! The only thing that happens if we get floods here is a few carpets get a bit soggy unlike America where whole houses get carried away!

When the narrator mentions Seathwaite getting 2.4" of rain in 24 hours, he makes a huge error. It was actually 12.46"! This was later beaten by Honister Pass, just a couple of miles away, which recorded 13.44" in 2015.

Rule No.1 Always be sceptical of anything the BBC broadcasts it always needs deep fact checking! In parts of the Eastern U.K. we only get double the amount rain dropped in California! Rule No. 2. The U.K. does have 2 year weather cycles. One year you will have very high temperatures, the following year it will been even hotter. This applies to all weather events that I"ve noticed after 65 years living in the U.K. Plus there are 2 United Kingdoms, one when it is wet the other when it is really sunny!

You might enjoy this YT vid-'I Explored the UK's Rarest Habitat & found something amazing...'by Leave Curious

Southern California's got it's good points...

So.... how much rain do you actually get an do you like or dislike it? I personally love the rain and the coziness it brings to sip on tea or coffee (or both) throughout the day. However, I do have many less days of rain so perhaps that is why 🌦

it stopped raining today 24/5/24 it had been for 3 days non stop rain some parts of my home estate are flooded... so not that bad as usually all of the estate is flooded. XD

History Yeet I live in East Anglia, in the East of England and we have a lot less rain than the rest of Britain. This KZfaq video is very misleading,I would say we have a lot less rain than this man says In 2022 we had a 3 month drought in the summer. When he says it rains every day, sometimes it's only for 30 minutes and the rest of the day is fine .

Video is complete bs, last year when I saw this and checked the met office our record year of most rainy days was around 150. So this average of 199 is just totally made up.

Well you know it is summer the rain gets warmer, can not wait for climate change.

Could be worse i suppose, severe drought

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So its. americas fault lol.

"This sceptered isle..." William SHAKESPEARE In AUSTRALIA, Melbourne has more wet days, yet Sydney gets more rainfall. Weather is the work of our planet and how we treat her. M 🦘🏏😎