Think of what you could've done if you'd stopped all weather forecasting and spent the money on burning tyres or something. You'd have lovely weather by now...
The weather forecasting and chitchat was just to give us something else to talk about politely while we rampaged around the world, stealing other people's weather and wealth and people.
It's famous for talking about it because it's always different and hard to predict and we're all boring shits.