Meteorologists are warning that increasing catastrophic cosmic storm activity is likely to cause intensification of weather-related small-talk.

The phenomenon, known as ‘chatting,’ occurs when individuals engage in light and informal conversation around neutral topics such as the weather.

Experts state that as cosmic storms cause more extreme weather fluctuations, individuals are more likely to pass trivial comment on sustained hurricane force winds, months-long lightning storms and radiation-induced collapse of the atmosphere.

“Our forecast models are predicting this with near certain accuracy,” Galactic Weather Service (GWS) meteorologist Florbin Valdar told Xenonion. “We are estimating that some offices may see upwards of a 500% increase in staff hearing comments like, ‘wow, what’s going on with the weather right now?’”

While experts say it will take time to analyze all the data to determine how sustained the small-talk will be, most agree individuals and governments need to start preparing now.

“No matter whether you’re being evacuated off-world or sheltering-in-place in the tattered remains of your local storm shelter, you’re going to run into neighbors and random people that will start chatting to you,” Valdar continued. “However, by preparing stock phrases in advance, like ‘yes, it’s just awful out there’ and ‘no, sadly my home insurance doesn’t cover force majeure events’ you stand a much better chance of making it through unscathed.”

GWS states it is developing a series of educational pamphlets to send to those in affected areas, including survival tips for staying alive when someone makes an inevitable joke about summer ending too quickly.