My father follows the weather forecast on TV and online, but I don't. My only exposure to it happens when I'm in subway stations and see the monitors that show the time, and also the temperatures expected over night and in the coming days.
Bad weather really doesn't bother me. The key thing is that I know I can't do anything about it, so there's no shame in not caring. (I feel the same way about getting older.) What gets to me is all the problems that I feel I should be doing something about, but I'm not sure what.
The comedian George Carlin used to play Al Sleet the Hippy-Dippy Weatherman. He's say things like "The forecast for tonight is: Dark," or "The weather today is 70 degrees at the airport, which is pretty stupid, because I don't know anyone who lives at the airport!" My mother loved that routine, though she didn't think as much of his later stuff like "The seven words you can't say on TV."
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