> [Kelly, on Texas...]
> > Don't you miss that? I can't imagine living in a state where the weather is the same for more than ten minutes. :)
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> This is hilarious. It seems like every place I know, volatile weather is an infamous characteristic. How can EVERY place be renowned for volatile weather? Why isn't San Diego simply more recognized as the only place the weather doesn't change at all?
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> In New England, the joke is, "If you don't like the weather, wait a minute." This is supposed to be hilarious to tourists, but tourists from where? Apparently Texans would be unimpressed. When I was in Florida last, thickly overcast skies rained almost every day...for half an hour. The rest of the time it was bright and sunny. One of those half hour rainfalls was one of the heaviest downpours I remember. Then, when I lived in Europe, well, I remember one time I got off the school bus when it was raining, and during my walk home it cleared into cloudless sunshine, and by the time I walked through my front door, there was a snowstorm.
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> Seems like I've heard of an awful lot of other places having reputations for highly changeable weather. How can so many places have this reputation?

I know what you mean. Other than places like California, Antarctica and the Sahara [the few places where the weather is the same all the time all seem to be inhospitable], everywhere seems to have very changable weather. The only difference seems to be what types of weather it changes between.

In Britain, the choices seem to be gales, rain, hail, flooding, more rain, wind, rain and rain. In the late winter we sometimes get snow, and in summer, the sun can occasionally be glimpsed.

I noticed a week or so ago that the most commonly used word on weather forecasts seems to be "changeable". I cn only imagine that this means "We think it's going to be rain, but we aren't sure. Could be anything".

winter"changeable? Of course it's changeable. That's what weather does"mute