winter is in full swing here in canada and although i may have forgotten what it feels like to live this wacky weather, i certainly haven't forgotten just how weather-obsessed canadians are. everywhere i go these days, people are talking about the weather. current conditions, future forecasts and even past weather woes. i guess what i want to know is, why is everyone so g.d'd crazed about it?is it enough that we have to live, work and just plain try to get through it?? do we really need to point out every slight temperature drop or quote the probability of precipitation??? yeesh! give it a rest already.
what is really interesting is how the knowledge of weather patterns gets around. it's a lot of heresary and gets passed around mouth to mouth, but quickly becomes a "big fish" story as people add or modify the details. the forecast might be calling for 10 cm of snow, but after it gets told from about 5 people, suddenly we are having the worst winter storm in years!
batten the hatches, secure the doors and children, everyone hunker down 'cos we're going to be stormed in!
it also amuses me about how much people looooooove to be the first one to give information on the weather, especially if they can be the harbingers of bad news. weather sadists if you will.
"We're supposed to be getting 80 cm of snow, each day, for the next 7 days."
"Guess I better cancel my life for the next little while. Thanks for telling me and here's your gold star for being such a good little weather watcher."
My point to all of this is can't we find something more interesting to talk about than the weather? I mean, there must be hundreds, if not thousands of things to discuss...current events, politics, movies, books, sports just to name a few...why not talk about that in lieu of endlessly debating what the weather may or may not do?
i hope you'll take some time to consider what i've wrote...at least inbetween forecasts.
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