Are You A Weather Nerd? (climate, snow, hot, record)

[jeffncandace]

I am. I am such a weather nerd.

I was born and raised in the Mojave Desert in southern California. I HATED the heat, hated the months...years!...with no change in the weather. Ever since I have moved away, I have become fascinated by the weather. I make it a point to watch the weather forcast everytime the news in on. I have been known to watch The Weather Channel for a good hour, just checking out the forcast around the country and the world.

I love a good thunderstorm, I love the changing of the seasons here in the midwest, I love the snow...I am just oddly fascinated by tempuratures, and fronts, clouds and storms, the dizzying highs, the sweeping lows...LOL.

Are you a weather nerd?

[940]

Guilty as charged...I've always been harassed good-naturedly by friends and family because I would sit and watch TWC instead of flipping by it like they would.

I'm still so nerdy about weather that I will go out to the back of my house and sit on the deck which faces north and wait for the first strong cold front to blow through (when I know it's right on my doorstep, so to speak)...I did that last year and the first very strong cold front of autumn blew through while I was sitting there and the wind picked up and a strong gust of much cooler and much fresher air blew through and the temperature gauge literally dropped an instant 10 degrees or so. It kept dropping about a degree a minute for the next 15 to 20 minutes and I was in heaven watching the changes occur!! See...I'm a geek about weather too...LOL

I won't even go into my other nerdy stories!!!

[Jammie]

Jeff, it's so good to find out I'm not alone with this. Yup, I'm a weather nerd. I enjoy seeing what's going on in the world weather-wise and like to watch Storm Stories or Full Force Nature, etc.

I like HOT weather and hate the cold.

Yea 940, I've been laughed at, too for spending a late afternoon watching the weather channel stories.

[kaykay]

My husband never understands why I like to watch "weather!" LOL! I don't really understand it either, but yeah, I do. I also like the changing of the seasons, especially summer into Fall Here in Dallas, we don't have, I guess, really pronounced four seasons, but they are distinguishable to some extent and I enjoy that. I prefer cool, cozy weather to the Texas heat we get during the summer.

[ColdCanadian]

The climate of my homeland "forced" me to become a weather nerd.

I love to be outdoors but hate to be cold.

Ever since I was 5 yrs old, I wondered why summer had to leave so early, (or at all )

I also always enjoyed the approach of spring and summer. The return of 70 F and 80 F weather was always a time for informal celebration at my house.

As a kid I liked weather from 50 F or higher, but I was willing to handle weather in the 40's.

Since we had such cold for so long I started watching the weather forecasts to try to make the most out of every nice minute we get.

[I LOVE NORTH CAROLINA]

Nerd here I love to watch the weather channel. Weather is very fascinating to me. Of course during the hurricane season I'm really glued to it. And for the record I HATE hot weather and LOVE cold weather.

[dojilynn]

I love looking at storms. The really big thunderstorms. I am constantly checking out storm chaser's websites to look at the pictures. Simply amazing. I wish we could get some of these huge storms in Utah, but it very rarely happens.

[jeffncandace]

Well, I'm glad to see I'm not alone! I remember a friend of mine in California who had visited the midwest, sneering at how midwesterners seemed to talk alot about the weather--how boring! I had to remind her that unlike California, the weather does actually change and actually has an affect on day to day life!

It's also interesting to see how different everyone's preferences are. Jammie likes the heat--ugh!!! I think we all want what we didn't or don't have. If I had been raised in Alaska instead of the Mojave desert I probably would prefer being hot!

[Jammie]

Good point, Jeff. It's kind of funny cause CC and I hate the cold and we live up here. Others hate the heat and leave far south.

[DaninEGF]

I certainly was a weather nerd growing up...and always knew at a very early age I wanted to be a weather forecaster for a career and here I am having been with the NWS for 17 years. I grew up in W Kentucky and I guess my fascination started with snow and wintry weather as where I lived we always got out of school when it snowed even an inch. Since I loved playing in snow I would watch all the weather shows I could. I would watch AM Weather on PBS just before school (this was the late 70s 10-13 yrs of age) and would watch each of the local weather segments on TV (we were in the middle of several markets so we got stations from Evansville IN, Paducah KY, and Nashville TN). I would remember how one Nashville station would have their snowbird come out and the background map would show all the counties in their viewing areas which were closed due to winter weather. In my high school years, I had a local weather station and kept my own obs and listened to NOAA weather radio each time a storm may come and pray for snow.

In the summer I of course liked severe weather....I do remember one hail event which occurred in my hometown during the night as a little kid. Hail big enough to have holes in the roof.

But winter weather was my thing and I hated the heat and humidity of a Kentucky summer and stayed inside during the day with the blinds pulled and the a/c on. In the winter I would go out and make piles of snow in our yard to try to keep the snow on the ground as long as possible. Down there it would always melt as western KY has pretty mild winters with rarely below 32F for any length of time. Always seemed to be on the rain side of the storm too.

I always wanted to move north....when younger it was always Saskatoon Sask or North Battleford Sask as they were in the paths of arctic highs and got down to 40 below frequently in the winter. Since Environment Canada cut back on staff/stations in the 90s....that dream ended and got as close as possible which is working in Grand Forks ND which is in the coldest part of the state. So....I saw bring on winter and the cloudy days....I go through a brief spell in the spring (up here mid April to early May) when the leaves come out and grass greens up when I get a bit depressed and irritable...but that passes. But I love weather and like forecasting storms...most people I know in my profession are a little weather "nutty" in some form. You have to be to work shift work hours....and all that comes with that.

Dan