Here in the Midwest, we're trained from birth to talk about weather
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It's because there's a lot of farmers there. Weather is very important to farmers. Need rain, but not too much, alternating with sun, but not too much, and it can't be too hot or too cold.
Weather is important when your livelihood depends on it.
Yep, right on the nose! I grew up on a farm, but also I noticed that people talk about weather all the time, even in cities
Well, in (insert location here), we have a saying: "If you don't like the weather, wait 5 minutes."
Holy shit! We have that same saying here at [insert location #2]
I'm not even 40 and I've been turning 40 for the past two decades?
Aren't we all 10, 40 and 80 at the same time?
I wish I was still 10 somehow. I'd certainly be a lot more motivated 😞
You're still the same person! Now go clean your room.
Joke’s on you, I’m British, we’re checking the forecast soon as we’re out of the womb.
Same in the Netherlands.
Jokes on you, I live in the PNW
We have to pay attention to the weather especially this time of year where it could be 50 one day and the next below freezing then swing back to 50 the day after that
So Michigan. Got it.
I've been watching the weather pretty religiously since I was 5. In Oklahoma, we have the Mesonet, a collection of 70+ weather stations scattered across the state with its data available to the public. I totally go download shit to Excel and study historical data all the time. I could spend hours doing this. I should have studied meteorology in college, but I got a business degree instead.
I've been watching the weather pretty religiously
So you're slightly pagan?
Same. Got into surfing really young and weather is everything, so I very quickly became expert level without realising it. We're always watching and studying the weather so closely; what's the charts implying could happen next week? What's the clouds, wind, and pressure saying will happen in the next hour? At some point the ocean and the weather became really close friends They're super reliable and are always saying what they'll do next, just need to know their language.
I apparently turned 40 before I was 40...
The older I get the less I have to talk about. Tv and movies are lame, the video games I play normal people never heard of, and nobody wants to hear what I read in books. The weather is really easy to mumble about.
Before I got my motorcycle I almost never checked the weather and that sometimes left me stranded in shorts and a T-shirt in 40 degree weather or with a winter jacket in 75 degree weather.
Now I check the weather basically every day because I want to see if it's good riding weather
Word. In winter the first thing I do when I'm half awake is grab my phone to check the weather. Have to prepare myself for the incoming depression if I can't ride to work.
Not 40, but weather news hits different when the cold/humidity fucking hurts your bones.
When you walk to work in a cold climate, you are always checking.
Die before 40, noted
I think people who leave their homes outside a car care about the weather at any age.
37 with nordic lineage and live in Cali. I don't think I'll ever give a fuck about the weather.
+40, nordic farming lineage, living in rural Denmark. I started caring about the weather in my early 30s. Temp, wind speed/direction and rain/snow/fog is something that we have a pretty good idea about for the next week.
40 years ago I had a t-shirt with the globe in a sand timer and a title saying "time is running out"