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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWinter storm Draco??? Seriously, since when do winter storms get names??
And, how did I miss the first three - Amadeus, Beelzebub and Chaos. Ok, I just made those names up, but if this is Draco, I figured they kind of fit the alphabet pattern.
Tornados are going to get kind of jealous.
msongs
(67,459 posts)ananda
(28,879 posts)Siwsan
(26,298 posts)But I still think it's pretty silly.
I'm in Boston. The closest thing we named was The Blizzard of '78. That was enough.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)That was a deadly storm in Michigan. My family was snowed in for more than a week. My dad had to tunnel out of the house, we were running out of food. He walked to town over several feet of snow, with a sled. There were no cars that could get through in the rural areas like ours. But, there were some cars that were able to get around in the downtown area about 5 miles from where we lived. Oddly enough even though it was somewhat traumatic I still have fond memories of the potato soup my mom made and we had for a week.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)I think it's a weather channel thing, not the weather service
Recursion
(56,582 posts)annabanana
(52,791 posts)NutmegYankee
(16,201 posts)Helps separate out the nor'easters.
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)White Juan was ... fun to be in the crosshairs of.
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)The names are a little more out there than the hurricane ones tend to be:
Athena
Brutus
Caesar
Draco
Euclid
Freyr
Gandolf
Helen
Iago
Jove
Khan (or perhaps Khaaaaaaaaan!)
Luna
Magnus
Nemo
Orko
Plato
Q(!)
Rocky
Saturn
Triton
Ukko
Virgin
Walda
Xerxes
Yogi
Zeus
Personally I think every named-storm list that excludes Loki and Thor is falling short of the mark, but we gotta start somewhere.
graywarrior
(59,440 posts)Why are we not naming nice days?
Mariana
(14,861 posts)tuned in to the Weather Channel during nice days. Nice days are bad news for the Weather Channel. Better to ignore them as much as possible.
dembotoz
(16,856 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)Maybe it's a service to local TV news shows so they don't have to keep coming up with wild-ass nicknames like 'The Great Snow of 2012.'
I remember back in 2000 we had a blizzard right after New Years and the newsies dubbed it "The Great Snow of 2000" and I thought, that's a little presumptuous, isn't it? We've got 3 more months of winter coming yet. What if the next one's even bigger?
TexasProgresive
(12,159 posts)Glassunion
(10,201 posts)We just had storms called "What the hell was that?!"
TexasProgresive
(12,159 posts)You must be older than dirt since they started naming hurricanes in my first year of life-1950.
diabeticman
(3,121 posts)Kolesar
(31,182 posts)Earth_First
(14,910 posts)I shit you not...
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Wasn't that a James Bond character name?
Seriously, they are naming winter storms??????
xfundy
(5,105 posts)And adds excitement! to storms. Marketing BS, more on the way.
We are no longer a nation of citizens. We are consumers, and varieties of demographics.
amandabeech
(9,893 posts)I think that the Weather Channel needs to set up some strict criteria.
I'm thinking 18 inches to qualify for a name.