On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 15:20:25 -0000, "Gav" sat@home wrote:

The British public are said to be fascinated by the weather.
If that is the case how come we don't have the media coverage like that of
the US?
Watching a local news channel in New York the presenter went in to great
detail about jet streams and radar images.
When you look at our professional websites they don't have half the tools
and images as they do. i.e. local radar, satellite etc. Even the newspapers
go into detail about it.
Is it me or do we just not care about the weather as much as we think we do?


I think that's true. In my experience the Americans are far more
weather-obsessed than the British, despite the received wisdom. I am of the
opinion that the British are more likely to start a conversation with the
weather than the Americans are - probably due to the lesser variability (on the
whole) of American weather - not much to say about the summer weather in
Phoenix, for example - "Sunny and hot again I see", or New Orleans in July -
"bit humid again, guys"

I have never been to the Pacific Northwest of the US and I wonder if they are
more likely to use weather small-talk, having a similar climate to ours.

Martin


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