Surprise heat waves and sudden down pours... Whether it's being stuck in a lift, meeting the parents or on a date, conversation always turns to the weather, and why shouldn't it?
What else do you talk about? What if the conversation dries up due to nerves, you lose your voice before the first drink arrives and they're making that fatal glance at their watch? Might it be time to open up the umbrella, put on the sun cream and embrace that fail safe topic that's literally changing like the wind at the moment...?!
The summer was said to be a heat-wave, the last winter people were literally snowed in and April showers seemed to have had a slight plumbing problem. With such unpredictable weather making it constantly hard to decide between shorts and trousers, coats and jumpers, why is it so bad to discuss something that actually affects our everyday lives?
Over the last six months the world has seen a stream of run-In's with Mother Nature herself. Famously bone-dry Australia has experienced extreme flooding, a cyclone and a fairly cold summer in parts. New Zealand had Earthquakes and aftershocks which became repeat offenders, devastating a once beautiful Christchurch and Japan was hit by the Tsunami that was watched by the world. Surely it's actually hard not to be interested in those ice caps right now?
It's suggested that conversation must be really dire if you have to resort to talking about the weather, but recent storms, tornado's and ash clouds affecting travel, (another conversational favourite) are far too hot a topics to avoid right now. Even sunny Southend's yearly airshow saw poor weather and poor turn outs. The question shouldn't be why talk about the weather, it should be why aren't you?
This week we were hit with a surprise heatwave and in true Essex fashion, tops came off and the redness glowed along with the sun. The Saturday before, it went from glorious sunshine to pounding rain that would make anyone feel like building an ark. That weekend we battled between the two extremes of heat and pouring windy rain. This great British Summer heat wave has a funny idea of steady Summer weather at the height of June.
The start of Summer usually sees the runners out in force throughout Essex, but Alexandra Blyth a local runner had her own views on our heat wave; "A man offered me to stand under his umbrella the other day when it was pouring down with rain and I avoided a cold, maybe this weather is bringing people together." She added, "When the weather can't decide whether its raining or sunny its hard to go for a run. One minute you're out in beautiful heat loving it, feeling the burn and the next minute you're drenched."
With the weather being far from boring at the moment and providing much speculation on this heat wave of a Summer, it really is hard not to talk about the somewhat dull subject. Sometimes its fascinating and sometimes its scary, but it's always something. Today it may very well rain (it is Britain,) tomorrow the sun could come out and the summer might not actually be the heat wave we had hoped for. In shorts or trousers, the weather is happening with or without you and you shouldn't be afraid to bring it up... you never know, it might just break that ice -cap!!
It's amazing how the weather can bring people together... it really isn't that bad to talk about, come rain or shine!
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