This issue is still present in 1.8. My husband and I are playing on a lan world, and for the first half hour, it rained occasionally and seemed to be fixed. After that, it began raining again about every 5 minutes, and has persisted like this for over an hour, just like it did in the other affected versions.
The sound of the rain drives us nuts after a while, so we've really been hoping to see this issue fixed...perhaps another solution might be to make a command to turn off weather effects altogether?
I can confirm this, my husband and I play singleplayer worlds and a LAN world together, so far all worlds have experienced this problem. We've also played 14w28b and the problem is still present.
Kinetic Kimo
This issue is still present in 1.8. My husband and I are playing on a lan world, and for the first half hour, it rained occasionally and seemed to be fixed. After that, it began raining again about every 5 minutes, and has persisted like this for over an hour, just like it did in the other affected versions.
The sound of the rain drives us nuts after a while, so we've really been hoping to see this issue fixed...perhaps another solution might be to make a command to turn off weather effects altogether?