Weather Channel

What is so appealing about The Weather Channel? I can remember thinking it was a little odd that some of my family memebers would actually call each other just to gossip about the meterologist that was giving the weekend forcast. However, now that I'm a little older, I find myself attracted to The Weather Channel as well. In fact, its the only cable channel that I have memorized; channel 36 on Time Warner cable in the SA area. Granted, I don't follow near as closley as the fore-mentioned people did but I think thats more because I no longer have time to watch much TV rather than lack of interest. 100 accessible channels and what's the best thing on? Weather!