This is Derek Brockway's confession: he is obsessed with the weather, & has been for most of his life. He is not unlike thousands of the television viewers who watch his daily forecasts without fail, of course, but his passion goes much further than curiosity about tomorrow's sun & rain. He loves meteorology itself; he loves to watch the skies, to read the cloud patterns & record the temperature. Anyone who has seen him present a weather report will know that Derek is in his element with the charts & weather symbols, especially when extreme weather is on the way.