Imagine for a moment that you are a person who has a great deal of difficulty in sustaining a conversation once you have met a person. After initial introductions, you draw a blank. It wouldn’t surprise me a bit that if in 99% of these situations what you end up talking about is the weather.

"Sure is hot today, isn’t it?"

"Think it’s going to rain? Sure looks like it."

"These weather forecasters, you can never trust them! They said yesterday there was only 10% chance of showers and our picnic was rained on all day long."

The weather has a place of prominence among us, and there is no better an indication of that fact than the inclusion of weather news on virtually all radio and television news programs. Turning on your television set for the evening news, you are automatically greeted …