Rain or Shine...
IT IS said that two Englishmen are instantly recognisable when they meet because their first topic of conversation is the weather.
Now it seems it could apply to Americans after a survey showed that the most popular topic on the world wide web is the weather.
The poll of 3,184 adults in the US showed that two-thirds of those who access the Internet used it to assess the weather.
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