We are under a tornado watch until 8pm tonight. For weather crazies like me this is so exciting. Just seeing the radar, reading the warnings – weather reporting here is just amazing.
I love internet forums and of course, there are an abundance of weather related forums. People share long range predictions, observations and forecasts. What I love is the passion that these people show for something that for a lot of us, is just something that gets a minute of coverage in a news bulletin.
Check out some of the signatures of the people that are posting on these websites –
I became interested in weather extremes when I lived in Amarillo and my fascination with weather warnings started with their own tornado warning system that was tested each week. People there are so used to it but for me, it was amazing that weather was such an integral part of every day life. I couldn’t believe it when one afternoon I got to see this footage of the Pampa tornado from 1995 and I realized that this devastation happened in the vicinity of where I was living.