Sentence:  Sipping their coffee , discussing the <WSD>weather</WSD> , the day 's shopping , Fritzie 's commitments at the network ( all of which he would cancel ) , they avoided the radio , the morning TV news show , even the front page of the Santa Luisa Register , resting on the kitchen bar . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation