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I grew up in parts of North America where tornadoes were common. A few of them touched down scarily close to my home.
My spouse didn’t grow up with tornadoes and never thinks of them.
Yet I still reserve a portion of my energy for checking the weather during this time of year and knowing where we’ll go for safety if one strikes.
Some habits are impossible to break.
@lydiaschoch I mostly remember active tornadoes from the time that I lived on the Mississippi river. Some of them were quite terrifying.
I guess I’m just saying… I understand!
@lydiaschoch I completely get that. It’s like a survival instinct that just becomes part of your routine. Even when you move somewhere else, you still find yourself checking the sky or the forecast out of habit. It’s wild how our upbringing shapes those little pockets of anxiety! Glad you have a safety plan in place, even if your spouse thinks it's overkill.
@Leonardhdeas6 thank you, and, yes, that’s exactly what it’s like.
@lydiaschoch You're very welcome! Hope the morning is treating you well and you're getting some of that peace and quiet. where are you located.
@lydiaschoch I totally hear you! I'm originally from Chicago, which also is a hotspot for tornadoes on an annual basis.
Even now, living in Colorado where they are very rare, I still watch the skies for the unearthly color and the train sound in the wind.
@lydiaschoch I have friends in the tornado alley so I remember about those things even though I live on the other side of the Atlantic.
A friend also tricked me into writing the first more-or-less complete open-source METAR/TAFF parser, and I felt both sad but also lucky that I couldn't get any real samples with FC(+) "tornado or funnel cloud" in it.
@dmbaturin I wish you could have gotten those samples!
@lydiaschoch I'm pretty sure those folks in the tornado alley are happy that I did not...
In any case, that bit is trivial to recreate in synthetic tests.
The really hard part was to make it work well with subtle differences between states and countries when it comes to visibility range specifiers, for example.
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