Weather and Natural Disasters

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Does weather and natural disasters fascinate you? I'm obsessed with anything regarding these topics - I check the Met Office everyday, I find that it is necessary to do so.

Weather fascinates my dad to the point where I just got bored. Years ago. But hey I like tornadoes and stuff

Hurricanes facinate me, in a "this thing might come kill me" kind of way.
We live near the coast, so yeah, it's possible.

i love the natural world. i cud go on it about it all day and bore nt to death lol

Meteorology, particularly the branches of climatology, forecasting, hurricanes, tornadoes and winter storms, has been my most intense and longest lasting special interest, picked up at age 10.

Yes, that too facinates me. I'd like to become a meteorologist - however I don't want to move away from home, as I'm very homesick.

Oh yes, me too! If only I could do better in school... I suck at school. Too bad you cain't credit by exam a whole degree... did it with HS...

Weather is a wonderful display of chaotic dynamics in action. It is a much "richer" phenomenon than systems based on linear dynamics. The nice thing is that one can never become bored by studying weather. Weather systems are almost "alive".

ruveyn

Very insightful – I never gave much thought to exactly what the fascination was. Weather is highly systemic, and supported by tables of numbers such as observations, so it makes sense that I would have a natural affinity for it. But weather is hardly unique in that regard. However, weather systems evolve and change, and morph and mutate, almost as if alive, as you say. Furthermore, they change at a pace which is frequent enough and with enough variations to be stimulating and interesting, but not too fast to be able to keep up. But these dynamics are goverened by rules, which are challengingly complex but orderly enough to not appear chaotic. Add to it that most of my special interests are outgrowths of my observing and then craving understanding of some aspect of my everyday world, and it no longer surprises me that meteorology perenially sits near the top of the charts in the "autistic special interests" category.

I have a profound fascination with them.

I love lightningstorms and i usually go out on the balcony to watch them in the summertime. You can just feel the power of nature when lightning strikes closely. I remember working one day and lightning took out the electric power, most others were worried that it struck so closely (sounded like it struck outside the door) but i thought it was great fun!

I also used to love watching documentaries about tornadoes, i used to tape everything on discovery channel, and the movie "Twister" was pretty cool. But i somehow lost that extreme intrest in it and now i just watch documentaries now and then if they come on TV.

I watch thunderstorms - I become all excited about them when they've been forecasted. I also watch loads of climate change, weather and natural disaster documentaries. However - I own just about every natural disaster film, including Twister...

When I was your age, I used to chase thunderstorms by bicycle. No fancy equipment or Internet back then - thunderstorm detection was by reading the sky, feeling the charge in the air and listening for static on the AM radio. My efforts yielded me a lot of soakings and some great memories.

Then, in subsequent years, on two occasions, in locations over 1,000 miles apart, I watched from home as tornadoes passed overhead – not touching the ground – only to learn later that both storms left serious trails of damage both upstream and downstream from me. Both storms also dropped some wicked hail, the earlier one piling to three inches deep with golf ball sized stones.

That's amazing!

I've never actually seen hail for myself bigger than the head of a pin. However - I like to watch thunderstorms from my bedroom window. Ironically, I used to be slightly frightened by lightening, but I find it facinating now. ^^

YES. Lately, volcanism fascinates me a great deal. I suggest you check out the thread above this about the Yellowstone SuperVolcano which has become the latest obsession of mine. For the longest time I never realized that Yellowstone was an active volcano. I once assumed naively that the geysers and mud pots were just leftover remnants of an extinct volcano but BOY was I wrong!

I too thought that for a while.