Conversation Starters: Weather

If you are not a natural at making conversation, then thinking of conversation topics when first start talking to someone can make you nervous.

While it is good to find other topics (more interesting) topics of conversation to move on to having good small talk topics up your sleeve will help break the ice and help you find those more interesting topics of conversation. It will also help relieve some of the anxiety of walking into an unknown environment and meeting new people. Alternatively, if you are networking online, having some conversation starters in your back pocket can make it easier to make conversation.

Weather is the ultimate small talk topic. It’s typically not the most exciting conversation-starter, however, used well it can lead onto other more interesting topic of conversations such as:

• Other person’s plans given the weather;
• The weather in their hometown or where they grew up if it is in a different location.
• If they could choose to live (or travel) anywhere based solely on the weather conditions, where would it be?
• Seasonal rituals and traditions

Further Reading:

• Conversation Starters
• What questions should I ask when networking?
• Why is Active Listening So Important and how to be better?