Is Ombrophobia From Netflix's The Woman In The House A Real Condition?
Jessica Hardy
Updated on March 06, 2026
According to online reports, ombrophobia is in fact a real condition that people suffer from, and it can also deal with the effects associated with rain, like thunder and lightning, and not just rain itself (via FilmyHype). Psych Times describes it as being an "irrational fear of rain" that leaves the sufferer with a "very high amount of anxiety" often leading to "full blown panic attacks."
"Having #Ombrophobia is not a choice, a laugh, a joke," wrote an affected Twitter user last April, nearly a year before "The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window" came out. "It's real. It sucks. Horribly," the person added.
At the end of the Netflix series, Kristen Bell's Anna is able to overcome her fear of rain and even ends up dancing in it. She goes on to leave her house and eventually boards a flight, where a possible Season 2 storyline is sparked up involving a missing woman whose body Anna discovers.
Season 1 of "The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window" is still currently available to stream.