I live in Oklahoma, USA. It has about 30-60 days each summer over 90 degrees F. It has mild winters though, usually around 40 degrees average temp. Not so far this winter. We are in the grip of a cold spell that we haven’t seen in close to 14 years. It isn’t terrible compared to some places, but it is freaking a lot of people out, nonetheless.
So, why do you talk about the weather so much? What does it have that allows that?
It’s that it affects everyone, so everyone can talk about it with each other. Pretty simple. But it is more than that. Talking about the weather is a method of telling others how you feel, what you are thinking, what your emotional temperature is.
What is your emotional temperature?
Drawing and commentary © Marty Coleman
“Don’t knock the weather. If it didn’t change once in a while 9 out of 10 people couldn’t start a conversation.” – Kin Hubbard, 1868-1930, American Author and Humorist
>I love talking about the weather! Unfortunately, I don't often experience freezing temperatures, but we're at 41-43 degrees this week in Adelaide (Australia). Oh the horror.
>Unfortunately, that is so true. Because we have to be so darn careful nowadays to discuss politics, religion and even television – the weather is a 'safe' subject. Unless you get people that moved here from Texas talking about how cold this is right now to the Iowa chic, and then I'm like…No, you really have NO idea what cold is! :=)