Weather
Weather
[Cueball and Hairy are talking.] Hairy: So, how 'bout this weather? Cueball: I know, right? The whole jet stream layer is nuts! Hairy: Um, sure... Cueball: The 18z GFS forecasts 960mb by Tuesday. Think it'll verify? Hairy: What? Cueball: ...Right. Sorry. Uh, yeah! Weather sure has been crazy.
[Caption below the panel:] Weather geeks have it tough.

Social norm accepts casual small-talk as an ice breaker for interaction — usually it is always safe to talk about the weather without hitting any disagreements as there are rarely any personal viewpoints about the weather — in contrast small-talk is never about political subjects or similar where chances are that there are strong personal viewpoints.
In this strip Cueball is described a "weather geek", enjoying subjects such as meteorology and weather forecasting . When Hairy makes a comment about the weather, Cueball launches into a detailed technical discussion, not realizing Hairy is simply trying to engage in small-talk. Only weather geeks would have this problem, but this topic is a common opening for a conversation in casual small-talk. Cueball switches to small-talk once he realizes that Hairy is confused and didn't expect this level of technical information.
As to the jargon:
The title text clarifies the problem weather nuts like Cueball here have: Unlike other geeky pursuits (like, say, the Derinkuyu Underground Cities , one of the most well-known archaeological sites in Turkey ) weather is a fairly common small talk subject. As a result, weather geeks have to be constantly vigilant so as not to launch into technical monologues.
[Cueball and Hairy are talking.] Hairy: So, how 'bout this weather? Cueball: I know, right? The whole jet stream layer is nuts! Hairy: Um, sure... Cueball: The 18z GFS forecasts 960mb by Tuesday. Think it'll verify? Hairy: What? Cueball: ...Right. Sorry. Uh, yeah! Weather sure has been crazy.
[Caption below the panel:] Weather geeks have it tough.
