What's Up With the Weather?

In most situations, except school, people are using common casual conversational English. You'll hear them when I... Actually, you won't hear the greeting, but when I call my mom or I call my friends, they just say, hi. They don't say, hello, how are you? I'm fine. And then later, and only if you need it, then you can focus on academic English. Okay. So let's just listen to a little section of a conversation with my mom. She lives in Indiana, which is in the middle of the United States. It's called the Midwest. And I know they were getting some cold weather. And then we start talking about