That said, I would like to extend invitations to any of my colleagues in climatology or meteorology to join this discussion..
Ahhhhh, but what about: Geologists, Cosmologists, Physicists and/or Astro Physicists, Astronomers, etc, etc, etc.
You know Heidi, scientists that actually KNOW about how the Universe and our Solar System works, including that big ORANGE hot thing in the sky called the SUN. Not to mention how our orbit around it, the Earth's TILT and 'wobble', and how those pesky SOLAR Flares effect us and ... shock ... our weather.
BTW, This is what it looks like in case you forgot. Notice that 'thingy' arcing Heidi? It ain't a Hurricane or Cumulus Cloud. /s
ps: that other thingy in the sky you see at night Heidi is the MOON and that effects our tides - among other earthly things like our rotation duration time (day). Really Heidi, I'm not kidding.
pps: What's the weather gonna be like next week? Oh.. you don't know, uh-huh, I see.
Wonder what the mythic "heat index" is of that thing.