LOTS of Non-Floridians moved here over the past few years. They are new to the Hurricane fear mongering handed out by the weather channels. Might take them a few years to become callused to the "Cone of death and destruction that no one will escape!!"
It’s the same here in tornado alley, I’ve noticed recently, If it’s a super cell thunderstorm during prime time hours on a weekday, The news will interrupt regular programming every 5 minutes with 17 different “state of the art” tracking radars, 3 on the ground storm chasers and 2 meteorologist tag teaming across the newsroom, telling us about every raindrop and wind shift for the duration of the storm. If it’s midday on the weekend, you’ll be lucky if the weather alert banner even scrolls across the screen even if its the exact same caliber storm. And many many times if it was an obvious tornado but the news didn’t warn you about it, theyll send out the “expert” to assess the damage and determine it was “not a tornado” it was just very strong down burst winds , that blew your farm apart. Ill admit though I really enjoy the sensationalism of a weekday supercell, and it’s about the only tv news I’ll make a point to watch. I think it’s just because I’ve always found weather fascinating and to to watch how sensationalized it’s become in a mere decade is absolutely fascinating to me on a psychological level.
I care for a man with multiple disabilities, he loves watching storm chaser videos, and I admit, so do I. Up in the NE, we only have blizzards to look forward to.
Watching storms is so very thrilling. I’m definitely the type to go sit on the porch so I can get a good birds eye view of our trampoline sailing away end over end. My whole extended family loves it, I thought it was normal until we all married and our husbands who explained to us that it was indeed not normal behavior. Is it not normal to know every meteorologist on every station and what nights they work? How to properly read weather radar? Tell the whole room to quiet down when we hear a weather alert siren on the screen? Text each other back and forth, giving wind speed updates, rain gage data, and rotation spotting s, like we are watching the Super Bowl? Don’t all families do that?
LOTS of Non-Floridians moved here over the past few years. They are new to the Hurricane fear mongering handed out by the weather channels. Might take them a few years to become callused to the "Cone of death and destruction that no one will escape!!"
It’s the same here in tornado alley, I’ve noticed recently, If it’s a super cell thunderstorm during prime time hours on a weekday, The news will interrupt regular programming every 5 minutes with 17 different “state of the art” tracking radars, 3 on the ground storm chasers and 2 meteorologist tag teaming across the newsroom, telling us about every raindrop and wind shift for the duration of the storm. If it’s midday on the weekend, you’ll be lucky if the weather alert banner even scrolls across the screen even if its the exact same caliber storm. And many many times if it was an obvious tornado but the news didn’t warn you about it, theyll send out the “expert” to assess the damage and determine it was “not a tornado” it was just very strong down burst winds , that blew your farm apart. Ill admit though I really enjoy the sensationalism of a weekday supercell, and it’s about the only tv news I’ll make a point to watch. I think it’s just because I’ve always found weather fascinating and to to watch how sensationalized it’s become in a mere decade is absolutely fascinating to me on a psychological level.
I care for a man with multiple disabilities, he loves watching storm chaser videos, and I admit, so do I. Up in the NE, we only have blizzards to look forward to.
Watching storms is so very thrilling. I’m definitely the type to go sit on the porch so I can get a good birds eye view of our trampoline sailing away end over end. My whole extended family loves it, I thought it was normal until we all married and our husbands who explained to us that it was indeed not normal behavior. Is it not normal to know every meteorologist on every station and what nights they work? How to properly read weather radar? Tell the whole room to quiet down when we hear a weather alert siren on the screen? Text each other back and forth, giving wind speed updates, rain gage data, and rotation spotting s, like we are watching the Super Bowl? Don’t all families do that?
No not at all. But as a desert dweller myself, rain and storms are rare so its like winning the lottery usually to see a good storm.
I, and least one of my adult children are addicted to weather watching. Doesn't even have to be where we live.