By Jarrod Mills
Staff Writer May 12, 2021
3 hrs ago
If it werenât for the weather, there would be one less thing to complain about and striking-up conversations with strangers in waiting rooms would be a lot more difficult. They say talking about the weather is reserved for older folks, but put me in a situation with someone I donât know or have very little in common with, and sure enough, weâll soon be talking about the weather.
I think weather talk comes so naturally to strangers because unlike politics and religion, itâs typically something we can all agree on. Rain is rain, regardless of what you believe. Even when there is a disagreement - you may prefer winter and it being cool out, while I enjoy spring and warmth - those disagreements are typically less âheatedâ than conversations on who you should vote for or pray to.
It s officially Let s Jaw About Cold Weather Winter | Sam Venable
The Knoxville News-Sentinel 2 hrs ago Sam Venable
On March 19, when overnight temperatures throughout East Tennessee abruptly flirted with freezing, I received an inquiry from Celia Simon of Kingston.
“So which winter is this?” she wanted to know.
In my typical (smart aleck) fashion, I responded: “Cold Weather Winter is as good a guess as any.”
Celia’s question did light a fire in my pea brain, however. It sparked again during the frigid runup to Easter last weekend, igniting the fuse on my seasonal gripe: Why in the name of Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit do we label sudden weather changes in the spring, but not other times of the year?