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most kids my age were watching cartoons, i was watching the weather channel.
my parents bought me weather instruments for christmas not toys.
i would go outside to check the barometric pressure at the age of 9.
i was born a weather nerd, its in my DNA.
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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
lol you are like me, I have a fit when my dad drives over the snow and go out and plough it up. grrr
Used to watch weather channel when I was in grade 5, and became obsessed with it. I have annoyed the crap out of my family with weather facts. I heard I was getting a PWS for my birthday and nearly hit the ceiling
O yeah I'm a big weather nerd. I'm always on the look out for the variations in weather parameters be it temperature, wind speed, wind gusts and direction, humidity, dew point temperature, atmospheric pressure and all that stuff. I always find myself trying out new tools just to get to know what the weather patterns are saying and I even check out the weather archives for different places. I guess that proves I'm a weather nerd. Doesn't it?
Used to watch weather channel when I was in grade 5, and became obsessed with it. I have annoyed the crap out of my family with weather facts. I heard I was getting a PWS for my birthday and nearly hit the ceiling
Heck, I used to watch that when I was in the 3rd grade. I was always obsessed with weather, a bit too much even.
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