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As a weather enthusiast, is it possible for you to be truly happy for someone else when they receive interesting (and desirable) weather that is extremely uncommon or unheard of in your locale (eg major accumulations of snow, violent thunderstorms, high temperatures). Or do you seethe with envy every time you learn about these events in the news?
I tend to be in the latter camp, especially if the extreme weather is occurring in other parts of the UK and especially if it concerns snowfall. There's nothing that bothers me more than to watch a weather forecast and to see a band of snow coming in off the North Sea, seemingly dumping a foot and a half of snow everywhere in the UK except for anywhere within a 50-70 mile radius of Glasgow, where we might get a light dusting at best. It doesn't bother me as much if the 'exciting' weather is limited to far flung locations abroad. The worst feeling is to be 'so close and yet so far' from a break in the monotony of life in a maritime climate.
No. Not at all. If there is a major snowstorm in southern England, then I won't be happy for them - I will be extremely jealous and annoyed. I will actively hope that any snow they get is toned down or never happens and that they get lots of rain instead. Such a scenario is made worse because it's southern England - the least snowy part of the UK, usually. I can live with Scotland getting more snow than we do because that's usually the way it is (usually).
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As a weather enthusiast, is it possible for you to be truly happy for someone else when they receive interesting (and desirable) weather that is extremely uncommon or unheard of in your locale (eg major accumulations of snow, violent thunderstorms, high temperatures).
Upstate new yorkers are extremely fortunate to get below zero Fahrenheit temps in winters and equally hot and humid summers. Below zero Fahrenheit temps have not occurred here in the last 10 years. Hope it happens this time.
I'm extremely jealous of tropical locations especially in the winter. I wish I could be there when I hear about Honolulu or Miami getting 25-30C temps in January It's just not fair that I am at such a high latitude
No. Not at all. If there is a major snowstorm in southern England, then I won't be happy for them - I will be extremely jealous and annoyed. I will actively hope that any snow they get is toned down or never happens and that they get lots of rain instead. Such a scenario is made worse because it's southern England - the least snowy part of the UK, usually. I can live with Scotland getting more snow than we do because that's usually the way it is (usually).
That's exactly how I feel. Most winters, I'm just resigned to hoping that England doesn't get much snow. LOL. I suppose I feel that, as a northerner, I feel that it's only 'fair' that I should receive commensurate compensation for the disparity in the summer temperatures and that this should come in the form of winter snowfalls (if they get the hottest summer weather, we should get the snowiest winter weather). Sadly, the world's meteorological systems don't operate on a system of fairness and instead, it just seems as though we get the worst of all worlds. Although people residing in the Outer Hebrides are truly the most cursed of all.
That describes how I was feeling about the stormy weather set to track eastwards through England and Wales in the early hours of this morning. I was hoping that the rain wouldn't be as torrential as it looked that it was going to be from the earlier forecasts that I watched (ie, even when 'heavy' rain is forecast for central Scotland, it is seldom indeed that there will be a sizeable swathe of yellow such as was predicted to cover a large part of England and Wales).
As a weather enthusiast, is it possible for you to be truly happy for someone else when they receive interesting (and desirable) weather that is extremely uncommon or unheard of in your locale (eg major accumulations of snow, violent thunderstorms, high temperatures).
Yes, I can, but I'm also annoyed that everything here follows a certain pattern. The windstorms almost always stays in Sweden, the 36C temps in Poland, surprisingly warm spring days in Oslo, thunderstorms always miss us and are diverted east or north, and are mostly restricted to May-August. I would like autumn days like Zagreb, fall foliage like Massachusetts, 25C nights like Paris, but I can feel truly happy for them, as that weather doesn't reach us anyway.
But on the other hand I felt bad for English posters this May and June when England was pounded by low pressure after low pressure, with us having a constant high upon us and full sunshine all the time. I don't feel a sense to revenge something, the weather doesn't just work that way.
Still, I'm sometimes jealous, especially in October, November and March to people living in Central and Southern Europe, as they get far superior weather.
Generally I'm not jealous of faraway places. Amazing supercell or blizzard in Sioux City? Fine, that's what makes that climate great.
Now, when places like Orleans or Amiens get nice snowfalls and we get close to nothing, I'm jelly as hell, especially if that snow was earlier forecasted to fall here. Stupid situations like this (stayed that way for hours):
Also, not getting snow is a double whammy, as it won't get properly cold without some of the white stuff on the ground. Here are the lows for the night after. Not difficult to guess where clear skies and snow covered ground are:
Sure, I get jealous just knowing the East coast get some snow or thunderstorms and the only "extreme" weather we get is heat, but then I remember how superior our mountains are.
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It's just not fair that I am at such a high latitude 
