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WHY is it SO important?

#1 Postby azsnowman » Tue Aug 10, 2004 6:56 am

I swear, some of the things I wake up thinking about :lol: Woke up this early morning (0345 MST) wondering, "Why is weather watching SO important in our lives and why are we SO consumed by the weather?"

For me I guess, the weather plays a HUGE role in my life AND it's cool watching systems, how they form, what dictates their paths, their intensity AND the AWESOME power they have.

Dennis 8-)
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#2 Postby Miss Mary » Tue Aug 10, 2004 7:07 am

Dennis - for me it's just a hobby. Not much that I do depends on wx. Now this past weekend we all went on a family reunion down near the KY/TN border. A cold front came thru up here and extended down that way. Years past temps hovered between 95 and 100. So I thought, oh come on, it has to be near 85 or 90, even with a cold front coming thru there? No! It was chilly by late afternoon and definitely by evening. We had a bonfire one night. Everyone was reaching for sweatshirts! Hubby didn't want one packed so he shivered. We all learned a lesson this year. You watch next year it will be near 100 again and we won't need the extra warm clothes we all packed!

My dad was into wx and worked in home construction back then. He was a carpenter by trade and moved up to Foreman. They began work by 7 and quit at 4:30. So as a young child I remember my dad reading his barometer and telling us a front was coming, watching wx on the local news, reading the forecast in the paper. As I got older and then ultimately had our house built I could see why my dad couldn't wait to get a roof over a house! My dad missed out on the whole TWC phase, passing on in 88. I don't even think he had cable! He'd be astounded at the Internet I'm sure. How we as a family check radar on the computer, check forecasts for cities we're traveling to (I goofed up there for the reunion!).

I'm sure we have members here that depend on accurate wx forecasts to do their jobs.

Mary
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#3 Postby opera ghost » Tue Aug 10, 2004 10:09 am

I've had a fascination with the weather since I started noticing that the weather always seems to miss me. There could be a catastrophic flood in the city- and my house wouldn't even have a flooded sidewalk... there could be tornados in the city- but they'd veer off 20 miles from where I was. Hurricanes could have Houston dead in thier sight while I was out of town- but the moment I landed back in the city- they veered off.

Fascination with my utter inability to wind up in really bad weather. :lol:

And for the record... Just when two hurricanes are spinning with the gulf in thier sights... that in any normal summer could have been targeting the Texas coast...

We're experiencing a highly unusual fall weather pattern that steers them all away. Call me superstitious... but I'm fascinated with it.
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#4 Postby CaptinCrunch » Tue Aug 10, 2004 10:41 am

Wx is the guide by which we decied on what we want to do and where to go, it also plays a part in how we feel and places us a Wx type of mood.
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#5 Postby NWIASpotter » Tue Aug 10, 2004 2:48 pm

Probably because we do have to plan EVERYTHING around what the weather is doing. And there are indeed quite a bit of people that are interested in weather. Given that some may not know a lot about how it works and how to forecast it, but they love watching it.
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