STORM2K

Tell us how you became a weather fanatic?

For me it was traveling. Checking weather status. Thats how I gained my Knowledge.

Well, I always kinda showed an interest in tornadoes when watching them on the news and such, so my mom let me watch Twister at age 4. Then I became obsessed with tornadoes. When I got hit by the 2004 hurricanes, that got me interested in hurricanes, and here I am.

Where I live it is very rare that we get tornadoes. It would be fascinating to me to see one when I travel but I have't seen one yet.

I've never seen one either.

Living in the plains, weather here is huge. We see it all, with the exception of direct hurricane landfall impact. Some of us become junkies and study it where we can. Seems to be a natural part here.

--snoopj

ive always been a weather junkie, ever since i was a little kid, and i used to stare up in the sky staring at clouds instead of toys, my parents knew they were in trouble way back then. haha

Hey Tropicana: How is the Orange Juice buisness doing?

It started with browsing hurricanes articles on Wikipedia. Then I picked up a copy of "The Weather Book" (look it up). It went from there, mostly.

I was in the snake trade...Need to know the weather to know when to catch them...

2 Seam Fastball wrote:Hey Tropicana: How is the Orange Juice buisness doing?

haha i always get this comment.
i love orange juice soooooo much, tho Minute Maid is a close second.

I've always been like this. There was no one point when I started liking all weather and weather extremes.

feederband wrote:I was in the snake trade...Need to know the weather to know when to catch them...

Snake trade? Don't wanna know!!!!

Been into weather since I was little.....eons ago....LOL

My daddy(RIP) did this to me!!! I can not remember a time when he did not show an extreme interest in the weather. He actually quit a job so we could move to Tallahassee so he could go to met school, but he couldn't get through the math and physics required. I was so looking forward to that gig in PR too!!! Anyway, I have always, thanks to him, followed the weather and with the internet and the information it makes available the fanaticism has gotten worse.

Hurricane Lily was the beginning for me. I was a late starter!!!