My love and fascination with the weather began around 1961 when I was ten. My mother had installed a simple mercury type outside thermometer that I could see from the inside of the house. She explained to me how it worked. I would check it as often as I could. Remember back then the only weather information available was the morning or evening newspaper or AM radio. Local TV consisted of three channels in black and white and you had to watch live local TV at around 6:15pm to get the weather forecast. There were no VCR or DVR back then. I can remember trying to get weather updates at night listening to my AM transistor radio. The problem back then was they turned the power output of AM radio signals down at night (they may still do it today?) so reception was sketchy at best.