An Obsession with the weather
I guess I was over 40 years ahead of my time.
I too was deeply in awe with the weather as a toddler.
When I was a little older, in grade school, during lunchtimes at home, I would eagerly wait for the 12:15 pm weather summary - 5 minutes long which was quite significant those days - on WWSW Radio in Pittsburgh.
Also, in the Mid -1960's, Pittsburgh had it's star TV Meteorologist , Joe Denardo, who on Sunday nights would give his weekly weather predictions, complete with the old tear-off weather maps and dark magic markers. Watching him was like seeing a glimpse of Mecca..
In the early 1970's when I was in college. during free time, I would spend hours and hours in the library researching articles over my favorite stuff- lightning and tornadoes. My heart leaped with GLEE when I was able to get a vaguely recognizable xerox picture of a tornado from an article.
When I was 14 back in the days when nobody ever heard of storm chasing in my area, in the summer time after those cold fronts came through and produced crystal blue sky with lowering dewpoints, and way off on the horizon distant snowy castles of thunderheads loomed, it was my dream to go off and meet them and dance among them. If someone told me then that I would actually be physically doing this and taking people with me, I would have been astounded.
Snowstorms have also been a romantic adventure for me since childhood.