Hey ecib, _refugee_ and Ben: Don't knock the weather question. I asked the weather question recently here and got 144 responses and almost none of them about the weather. (Eddie and Ben - I know you're not knocking the question). But I want to add something here: There have also been several posts regarding being PRESENT, experiencing your life in the NOW -- Unlike Australia, it's damn cold here right now so we burrow, nest, and hibernate (hubskinate?) indoors a little more.
I can't help but wonder, with all the emphasis on immediate existence, if the population of Hubski, by some weird coincidence is just a little bit Buddhist. The idea of being in the NOW is a very Buddhist concept, and it's actually taught as the first step towards proper meditation.
AlderaanDuran meditates from what I understand. I wonder who else.
But why ask a question that's not going to get relevant answers? I mean, if none of them were about the weather, then why ask about the weather in the first place? Why not ask about something else? If the question elicits off-topic answers it doesn't matter what the question really was. And besides, the title of your post - that thing that makes people click into the discussion - wasn't about the weather, it was a general "tell me something" sort of thing. The weather was more of a suggestion that was then disregarded.
I'm all about meeting people via weather. I like to think I'm a little more adept at casual conversation and ice-breaking than having to resort to it, but I fully endorse it. Come to think of it, it would be fun to try the inverse. For a period of time, in social settings, initiate all new connections strictly via conversations about the weather...