“How’s the weather?” As I aged into my teens, I associated their question with pity. “How’s the weather?” was clearly something old people asked when they had nothing else to talk about. I have never, near as I can recall, devoted an entire column to the weather. Then came the 1970s and ’80s, when TV news replaced brief weather reports with “meteorologists.” Weather info increased exponentially. And I wonder if my grandparents — when they repeatedly asked me, “How’s the weather?” — knew more than they let on.