My friends call me the weather person. I've always been interested, but the interest is greater now, since I am looking for things like, can I go cycling, what's the wind?, rain predictions, temperature going up for x country ski conditions. I listen to the TV news (one local station is much more accurate than the others) and check on line.
My DH is really obsessed with weather. When we lived in AZ (being hardly any "weather" to speak of) he once took a video of the rain! He could smell a dust storm coming an hour before it arrived.
Living in New England, you have to be interested, because the weather is so varied. That's why I love it.