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I am obsessed with snow, have been for ages. but at the moment the weather keeps telling me its going to snow, then it does not, and it keeps changing its mind, its driving me insane. it makes me really angry, and if the weather is wrong about the snow then it ruins my whole week.

there is not much point to this post really, but i just checked the weather which has changed again and needed some where to express my anger.

In the same boat here. I've been obsessed with extreme weather since I was four or five and failed or over-predicted snow events drive me crazy! Luckily, I went to college for a degree in Atmospheric Sciences and have made its study a life-long passion so I can use the same model/satellite/radar data that meteorologists analyze and make my own predictions, which definitely reduces the shocked frustration I experienced more in my youthful years. We haven't had any legitimate snowfall in my area this winter and things are looking bleak so hopefully we can both catch a break before spring.

I know what you mean. I used to live in an area where we might/might not have snow in a winter. So snow felt really special. When the forecast mentioned the possibility of snow, I got excited, but when it didn't snow despite the forecast, I got very disappointed. Now I live in an area where we never get any snow. So I miss snow, but at least I don't get that disappointment.

For the most part, I ignore football games. But if they are playing in the snow, I don't care who it is, it gets my undivided attention.

Also rain. I really love it if the visibility is so bad that you can't see from one side of the field to the other.

I love extreme weather - I get so excited when storm warnings etc.. get issued... and devastated when they don't arrive.

Was a bigger deal when I was still in school becouse of snow days and other reasons for cancelations. Now its more of a do we have fuel for the blower? Food for a few days? Recycle bins blowing away? etc. Can't change the weather so why care.

yeah i love snow, its meant to snow today where i live, last time the weather forecast was wrong and i was suprised at how much it affected me, i was furious and upset for days, i even started crying about it which was embarrassing.

I totally get this, I love snow and if they predict overnight snow and I wake up to no snow, its like they cancelled Christmas..
I feel so let down...
We only get snow maybe 3 times a winter normally where I am..
I too love storms and extreme conditions.. not so much hot, not good with hot.. but rain, wind.. bring it on.

Stu

Start planting tropical fruit trees.
Also consider more shade trees

Forecasters now tend to over predict bad weather, more often and predict sooner than bad weather actually arrives
This is so they cannot be blamed for forecasting an extreme event later than expected, or not at all.
Less lives lost is the rationale for over predicting.
Farmers can move stock which is important especially in NZ during lambing season

I'm rather obsessed with the weather too. Not ''obsessed'' as in ''special interest'' obsessed. I just mean ''obsessive caused by anxiety''. I hate the snow, which makes me very obsessive when snow is mentioned in the forecast, and I keep checking up on it on the local weather website. I'm rather confused now because it says heavy snow for the next 6-7 hours, but on the forecast summary it says nothing about warnings of disruption or accumulations.

I'm more obsessive with the rain. I love heavy, prolonged rain in the autumn, winter and early spring, and I like thundery rain showers in the summer and late spring. I seem to be ''best friends'' with the rain and ''worst enemies'' with the snow. I do love heat and sunshine too, also thunderstorms. Wind is OK. Fog is dismal. But I can tolerate every weather (within reason) except snow.

Last edited by Joe90 on 10 Feb 2013, 4:39 pm, edited 1 time in total.

you are in a similar p;lace as me then, i am in the south east.

Here is Australia they tend to underplay things - I don't know if they are worried about causing mass panic or what the situation is. With the recent floods to hit the East coast of Queensland there were associated tornadoes (not usually seen in Queensland) yet despite an American storm chaser who recognised the specific weather patterns for prime development contacting them and issuing a warning, the Bureau Of Meteorology failed to even acknowledge that a tornado had occurred, this despite it being all over the news etc. To cut a long story short, the American chap had a warning out for a defined area nearly a full day before the BOM via a weather forum. This system produced another six tornadoes, of which two hit populated areas causing extensive damage to property, all but one of them occurring PRIOR to the BOM's warning! If you want to know what's ACTUALLY happening with the weather then going via a forum for the forecast is a much better option. Government agencies (who supply weather forecast modelling to most news stations etc.) are fantastic at predicting the weather when its fairly normal and there is nothing to predict.....

This is why I have decided to study meteorology and hopefully become a meteorologist.

We have had a couple of deaths from tornadoes in a suburb of Auckland called Albany, unheard of till last year
We also had a controversial guy called Len Ring who uses the moon to predict severe weather events, especially around perigee I think when the moon is at its closest.
Yet our government fails to impute any data which is considered politically unscientific. 'Science Politics ' being the limiting dogma in collating all relevant data

Thanks for the tip. However, I have just developed an allergy to sunlight due to weeks of good surfing and good weather. I may have to become an indoor person if this does not change, nearly 2 weeks now or move to Ireland