Please allow me to introduce myself..

           Hello! My name's Melnado, and I'm a freshman in college.  I'm currently majoring in meteorology and minoring in journalism, so I figured this would be a pretty cool idea.  Just to let you know, I am a little very obsessed with weather.  It's been that way since second grade.  I've been especially drawn to severe weather.  I love tornadoes, thunderstorms, hurricanes, monsoons, and pretty much any kind of destructive weather.  When there is a thunderstorm, you can find me on my porch watching it.  My dad's always outside with me, and sometimes my dogs do too. Often, I have to put my dogs inside because they hate the sound of thunder.  My one dog is deaf now so I think she'll stay outside with me this summer.  A lot of the time I find myself on Google Images searching for tornadoes and destruction severe weather has caused.  I want to see a tornado so bad, and trust me, I will someday.  Another dream of mine is to live through a category 4 or 5 hurricane.  I want to be there when the waves start getting rough, the sky darkens, the first half, the eye, and the last half.  I've heard about the eye of a hurricane when everything gets really clear and calm, and it really just amazes me and I'm fascinated. I'm one of those dorks that have severe weather alerts and daily weather forecasts sent to their phone.  I always get excited when I get a severe weather text.  Especially in high school when I would just tell everyone in my class that there was a severe thunderstorm coming.  I am no doubt a weather dork.

           Before I bore you to tears, let me tell you what I plan to make this blog about.  To tell you the truth, I really don't know.  I'd like to focus on weather, but I also have a bit of an obsession with trains.  So I'll try to incorporate the both of them. Basically whatever I feel like blogging about, I will post.  I'll have some cooler pictures this summer when South Jersey gets hit hard with severe weather (I hope).  Last summer kind of sucked :( I hope everyone enjoys my blog and I keep all you weather fanatics interested :D

-Melnado

One of the coolest pictures I have ever taken.  It was taken during the summer of 2009.  From what I remember it passed over where I live :( Still an awesome picture though!