The weather has certainly provided fodder for conversation. Gripes, swears and lamentations abound. But its variety has been engrossing for the weather-mimded among us. Yesterday sleet and even snow if you were far enough north in the region. Tonight I look out the front window to see fog engulfing the neighborhood. I get upstairs and a severe storm whips dumoing rain and illuminating the fog that hides the valley hehind US.