John was not surprised to see that nobody had met him at the station. The weather __________(BE) awful — it was windy

John was not surprised to see that nobody had met him at the station. The weather was awful — it was windy and it was raining hard. His feet got wet in seconds. His old jacket couldn\'t defend him from the rain or the wind. “If I don\'t find a shelter and a warm drink, I will get a cold, and no one will benefit from my coming here,” John said to himself and went back inside the railway station. It was the first time the seventeen-year-old John had ever left his home village where he lived with his mother and two sisters. A letter from his uncle was a surprise but not a pleasant one. His uncle had written that his health was getting worse and that he needed someone to help him in his grocery shop. John\'s mother decided that he had gone to the town to work in the shop. He was far from feeling delighted about it but he was the the oldest child in the family and it was his duty to help his mother and to support his sisters.