Only to entertain the delusion that most people have when they hear the word "weather": that it doesn't involve anything outside a 1 cm buffer around them. When you gain even a tiny understanding of how the atmosphere works at a planetary scale, that misapprehension vanishes.

But nobody told us there’s no link at all between these two.

For some reason, we only get told to make this distinction when the weather in question is exceptionally cold, never when it's exceptionally warm.