My parents enjoyed wild weather. They picked up that trait from my dads parents who lived next door. Grandpa kept track of rainfall with a rain gauge mounted on a post next to a walk that went from their back door to our back door. When big storms hit, one of my parents favorite activities was to get in the car and go for a drive to see the local impacts of the storm. Much of this familial interest in weather stems from the fact that my grandparents and parents (and just about everyone else in my extended family) were farmers. Farmers can never have enough information about the weather.