— From The Weather Channel Blog. (Which I’ve just gone and syndicated as twcblog.)
Actually, I get the same thing from my blog reading today and yesterday. We all at once seem to be deeply horrified and geekily fascinated.
Meteorologists talk about extreme weather
“While this is surreal, it’s also deeply troubling. Meteorologists have complex feelings about extreme weather. Many of us have been fascinated with the weather for a long time, and are awed by the power of nature. A roiling cumulonimbus cloud just “does something” for me. We look at satellite images of Katrina and find them breathtaking. But we are also horrified.”