Its a combination. A need to be first on a random weather board to play gotcha games...a sick psychosis in always being negative so if the bad things happen one can claim “told ya so” and if it doesnt happen they get what they really wanted anyway (pretty sure one could write a psychology book on weather hobbyists alone), or the few who actually care about the science and learning/teaching.
New rule. If you declare something over (a storm threat, a season, an entire atmospheric condition or precip type) but post in threads about said condition, all of your posts must end in lyrics by Dennis Leary’s most famous song.
Was that the same storm that we were told the nws gets the models 3 hours before the public? And that they just withold it for gits and shiggles?
Edit: nope, almost exactly a year before lol