Is the weather "news"?

One of the daftest stories I was involved in appeared in a newspaper I worked for in the English midlands a decade ago, when we revealed that Disney were threatening to sue the local council for breach of copyright after laying out flowerbeds in the shape of Mickey Mouse.
We were overjoyed to hear via BBC World Service a few days later that the story had "gone global", appearing in papers as far away as Australia.
Nowadays the Internet has made all news instantly global, whether it's good, bad, daft or indifferent.
So there's every chance that you might be reading this in far away, sunny climes and will have no idea that it has done nothing but lash it down all day here in North Wales. It's been pouring for days - and it's going to carry on for a several days more.
But is the weather news? - news is meant to be about the out-of-the-ordinary and "heavy rain in North Wales" sounds about as obvious as "firefighter fights fire" .
But the weather has a special place in our hearts. There's nothing we like to talk about more. And people love to read about extreme weather, especially snow (remember those blizzards in early March - they gave us a a daily sales lift of several hundred copies). So that's why page three tomorrow is devoted to all things soggy, including the five inches of rain that has deluged parts of Snowdonia.
Just make sure you get on your wellies and waterproofs and go and buy a copy tomorrow. And if you live in Australia, drop me a line and tell me what the weather's like.