Naming Winter Storms

[ski diva]

You may have heard this already, but the Weather Channel recently announced that it's going to start naming winter storms. They say a storm with a name is easier to follow, particularly in social media.

More about all this here.

What do you think? What type of names would you like to see? And if you were going to name a storm, what would it be?

 

[VickiK]

Names of politicians, because of the winds, might be appropriate, but I'd rather see names from mythology (Greek, Norse, etc.)

But I wonder whether it is necessary--I don't like how the news business makes a big deal about normal weather changes ("Devil Winds!! News at 10").

 

[vickie]

Well, based on the word we're getting about the current storm, I think "Sandy" should be renamed to something more appropriate, like "WomanScorned".

 

[mustski]

Well, based on the word we're getting about the current storm, I think "Sandy" should be renamed to something more appropriate, like "WomanScorned".

In SoCal they are calling Sandy, "Frankenstorm." I like the idea of naming winter storms after politicians. The bigger the storm, the bigger the windbag chosen!

 

[braveskimom]

Any names are better than Snowmaggedon and Snowpocalypse! I would be honored to have a storm named Kristen.

 

[abc]

I couldn't care less if they name winter storms, as long as they forecast it right!

I got stuck in traffic for 3 1/2 hrs today because the roads were not plowed at all!

Never mind that I didn't see any plows. The police are totally invisible! At one road (not a small one), stuck cars block half of the road. So what's all the cars do trying to get past without police help? They gun their engine trying to go around it, WITHOUT letting cars from the opposit direction to clear first!!! Idiots! So both cars had to brake, which caused both of them to slide off the side of the road. Then the WHOLE road were blocked!!!

And on the freeway section, I was keeping a safe following distance, BUT ONLY FOR A FEW SECONDS! Cars after cars slid right into that safety zone I reserve for myself!!! Now remember, this is on a road that's entirely un-plowed, and re-frozen (temperature right around freezing mark). It's not like they don't see reminder of what happen to cars before them, there were plenty of cars already stuck all along the side of the road!

BTW, I do like it that they end up using the Greek Gods. Athena is a whole nicer than Sandy...

 

[whitewater girl]

I saw some of the picts from down state - looked like a right mess

 

[RachelV]

Well, the upside is that Joel from OpenSnow.com is naming the storms out west as a result, which gives me a few minutes of entertainment. So far we've had Elvira (who showed up around Halloween), and this weekend, hopefully bringing the goods to Colorado, we have Obamney.

https://opensnow.com/dailysnow/post/386

 

[Jilly]

Is that meant to be a combination of Obama and Romney? Elivra! Can't wait to see the next one!

 

[Celestron2000]

Is that meant to be a combination of Obama and Romney?

It is.

 

[RachelV]

Yeah, the tagline for the storm is "when two parties collide, a storm is born."

 

[tradygirl]

This is happening in utah too. We just got hammered with a 47" storm that everyone is calling "Brutus".