What's up with the obsessive need to know the temperature in this country? Everyone here knows what temperature it was yesterday and what it will be today, tomorrow and this weekend. "It reached 105 yesterday you know". Back in Edinburgh the temperature was "bloody freezin", "mild" or "bloody sweltering".

May be there alote more like us than first thought, talking about the weather

Oneupmanship maybe?!

How can you read my mind you're spying on me aren't you
Actually I had the opposite experience in Scotland - I found everyone was obsessed there with temp and I have just brought it with me (drives my hubby mad!)

I blame the weather channel since that came about everyone is an expert. I often tease people and ask them when did they find time to get there Meteorologist degree............... cause so many people will offer up weather info uninvited especially around hurricane season!
And they say we like to talk about the weather?

i find here they talk about the amount of rain fall....for example 'we had 1/4" last night' errr well i think they're talking about the amount of rain and nothing else ..lol in the uk it's usually just pissing down all the time, i'd never heard of folk measuring the rainfall prior to coming here....

It seems to be mainly the phone calls from England that are filled with the talk of weather - they always want to know what it's doing here. Mind you at the moment they are moaning about the heat and I am glad to be in airconditioned comfort

Seriously! Was talking about the heat here in England with MiL and every day she asks what the temp is. I don't know! Does one need to know more than swelteringly hot!

Here in Tucson we had tons and tons of rain last week which made the (usually bone-dry) rivers burst their banks. And people call it 'moisture'... to me 'moisture' in the air is that sort of clingy mist that you don't realise is affecting you until you touch your coat/fleece/hair and find it's wringing wet. The monsoon rain here most definitly is not 'moisture' to me...

Scotland is so bloody backward, that's how they mark the thermometers.

It's 82 degrees.

I have 80º, 59% humidity and the dewpoint is 64º.

Bah! Ten inches of humidity is nothing to worry about.

Because the temp is hellish it's a need to know situation, front page news. 98F today, 104F real feel, it sucks.

I'm the one here in UK trying to convert C to F. Everytime I talk to my parents in NC they are talking about temps up in 104 with a heat index of 120. Never hear anyone say anything about heat index here in UK.