I must have missed that memo…
Anyway, some cool photos…
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/winter-storm-hercules-pictures-20-2997088
Last year. I believe that The Weather Channel in the US made that crap up.
Yup, supposedly they’ve been told by the National Weather Service to stop doing it.
Or else what?
Or else what?
Or else they’ll start to lose credibility, and possibly access to data, in the weather community. The main issue is that the Weather Channel started naming winter storms as a marketing gimmick to increase traffic to their website and tv station. No one in the weather community is happy with the decision as the criteria for what storms get named is weak and arbitrary.
Of course it’s gimmicky, and of course it’s stupid, but the main issue is that the government doesn’t have any business telling anyone that they may or may not call a snowstorm “Winter Storm Frozen Pants” if they want to.
Of course it’s gimmicky, and of course it’s stupid, but the main issue is that the government doesn’t have any business telling anyone that they may or may not call a snowstorm “Winter Storm Frozen Pants” if they want to.
I apologize as I may not articulate this well… TWC wanted to create something useful to communicate about winter weather in the same way that hurricanes and tropical storms are classified and named. They failed miserably. Initially, they worked with the National Weather Service with this goal. They failed on several counts of criteria that were inconsistent, arbitrary, and sometimes imaginary. NOAA is a very scientific organization and, since the naming system was horrible and misleading, requested that TWC stop. TWC went ahead anyway. The scientific community is not supportive of the system but TWC gave them the finger and trudged forward.
I think it’s dumb, but I’d consider getting behind it if they only used inner city names for winter storms.
Of course it’s gimmicky, and of course it’s stupid, but the main issue is that the government doesn’t have any business telling anyone that they may or may not call a snowstorm “Winter Storm Frozen Pants” if they want to.
I was under the impression that the NWS/NOAA didn’t say stop. Just that on every winter storm press release and warning, they say the national weather service does not name storms. Between the lines, every press release says TWC is stupid 
Or else what?
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That would probably explain the MRAPs and the tens of thousands of rounds of ammo that the NWS bought.
Or else what?
They pretty much said “Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!” ; )
TriBanter nailed it pretty well as far as their reasoning where TWC was doing it for marketing purposes.
Actually after reading this thread I feel better about the whole deal. I thought this was an official thing and not just TWC being stupid. If they had been more creative in their names I’d be more in favor of it. We need names like Witches Tit, Tab bit Nipply, Ex-wife’s heart, …
http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/nick-falsone/index.ssf/2014/01/winter_storm_hercules_leaves_l.html
Pardon me for the delay in posting this, but I’ve been laid up for the past three days as a result of Sinus Infection Fred.
Fred brought with him congestion levels that I haven’t seen since 2011’s Seasonal Flu Ethel and temperatures rose to 101.1 degrees, not quite high enough to surpass the fever of 102.9 degrees I saw with Stomach Bug Dennis in 2007.
I don’t actually give a name to every ailment that hits me because that would be ridiculous. The folks at The Weather Channel, however, may embrace it.
The only one that I remember from 2012 was Nemo
Actually after reading this thread I feel better about the whole deal. I thought this was an official thing and not just TWC being stupid. If they had been more creative in their names I’d be more in favor of it. We need names like Witches Tit, Tab bit Nipply, Ex-wife’s heart, …
this is brilliant. This is the only way I would support it.
Actually after reading this thread I feel better about the whole deal. I thought this was an official thing and not just TWC being stupid. If they had been more creative in their names I’d be more in favor of it. We need names like Witches Tit, Tab bit Nipply, Ex-wife’s heart, …
Remember the “SpringShield” episode of The Simpsons when they had a power blackout during a terrible heatwave…? My favorite was a throwaway bit scene where Groundskeeper Willie is in the school basement dialing the A/C up from “Glasgow Winter” to “Well Digger’s Bum” and finally all the way to “Witches Teat” (and then Homer finally blows it all by plugging in a singing Santa amid the tangle of extension cords & multiple fans, leading to the looting of Cinderblock Village, and then Homer running afoul of Fat Tony by starting his own security service, and ultimately to a ‘Sopranos’-themed reckoning… might be my favorite episode ever).