Robert Plant picked up the phone at his home in western England and offered a detailed weather report as he peered through a picture window in a sitting room.
"It's a beautiful evening here," said the 73-year-old singer best known as the golden-god frontman of Led Zeppelin. "That said, in the U.K. we're unaccustomed to 38 degrees Celsius" — about 100 degrees Fahrenheit — "which is what's been going on today. There's a major panic around the country with the water supplies.
"So: lovely, but also a little ominous."
