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Weather Channel Announces Plans To Invent Names For Winter Storms

DToTheJ

DToTheJ

You know how the National Weather Service assigns names to tropical storms and hurricanes so we can keep track of them?

Who says the fun has to be confined to hurricane season? Now The Weather Channel is going to come up with their own names for winter storms effective this year. In addition to raising awareness to these storms, the names may give them "personality." Because that's what you expect from your severe winter storms - a fierce personality. And it "might even be fun an entertaining." Well, if it deters them from showing "March Of The Penguins," then I'm all for it.
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/489671-Weather_Channel_Will_Name_Winter_Storms.php
 
Would you give winter storms male or female names? :D

Are they going to stick Chromedome Cantore out in a raging blizzard?
 
Are you freaking kidding me? WFSB-TV (CBS) channel 3 of Hartford already does this. I tune out their weather most of the time for that very reason.They claim it was a tradition started by their one time owners, the Travelers Insurance Corporation (in their pre-1974 days as WTIC-TV). :mad:
 
This idea will go over like a lead balloon.

I seem to recall the Nat'l Hurricane Center had a snit a few years back when a local NWS office in Maine, or the area, gave a Nor'easter a name.
 
The Grand Forks Herald of Grand Forks, ND has a long-running tradition of giving names to all blizzards that strike the newspaper's coverage area during any given winter. Typically the names that are used are associated with local or regional newsmakers. The whole process is meant to be taken lightheartedly and tounge-in-cheek, though, as just something to lighten the mood during a dark and cold part of the year and recognize that living through a brutal Plains blizzard is, just by itself, something of an accomplishment.
 
They will break in to cover all Winter Storms and the MLB Network will have Harold Reynolds call either October 7th or 10th Game with Dan Plesac the other.
 
tested said:
Who cares? The Weather Channel doesn't do weather anymore. Why should we care what they name a storm?
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Simple -- it further cheapens the image of the once-great, once-serious weather information channel.
 
azumanga said:
tested said:
Who cares? The Weather Channel doesn't do weather anymore. Why should we care what they name a storm?
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Simple -- it further cheapens the image of the once-great, once-serious weather information channel.
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^ yup.

G
 
Five will get you ten that these "names" will somehow be tied to Comcast properties.

GE nor'easter
Universal gale
E! breeze
 
Sounds like some deck chairs are being rearranged on the deck of that ship.

Methinks that some of the Comcast suits are doing this in order to get some a couple of more points in the ratings.
 
My thoughts exactly - get more people interested in the weather, and in turn, more interested in The Weather Channel...
 
Another reason this is idotic: Our local station will still likely use their needless name for our next Nor'Easter instead of the name from TWC. It will just cause more confusion, I think.
 
@AnotherGuy: Thanks for that - I see they got a mythical theme going with the names... You would think that the very first time they'd do this, the very first winter storm would be named "Al" (as in Roker :D)...
 
The only names we use here in Seattle are Snowmaggedon and Snowpocalypse. During the early 2012 snowstorm, five inches of snow and a couple inches of freezing rain on top of that caused every school district in Western Washington to close EXCEPT for Ocean Beach SD in Long Beach, close to Astoria.

People in MN, ND, SD, MB, etc. can deal with the snow. Schools run mostly all year long even if there's a couple inches of snow. Here in Seattle, one snowflake on a weather monitor=40 miles of school closures. And 98% of Western WA drivers don't know how to drive in it. :D :mad:

-crainbebo
 
In West TN they close schools if there is even the slight threat of a snowflake.

If they're going to name snowstorms, it should be done by NOAA and used by everyone, not by TWC or individual stations.
 
anotherguy said:
In West TN they close schools if there is even the slight threat of a snowflake.
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They do that here in middle TN as well. I thought (during all the time that I was growing up in west TN) that the midstaters know how to drive in snow better than the west-staters do, but since I have lived here, I have learned that that is not the case.
 
@ Anotherguy: I agree with you 100%. Also on record against this is Geoff Fox of WTIC-TV (FOX) channel 61 of Hartford. Before joining WTIC-TV last year, he was the Chief Meteorologist at WTNH-TV (ABC) channel 8 of New Haven from 1984 until winter 2011. In other words, he definitely knows his stuff! He is on record with his own blog for not liking how cross-town rival WFSB-TV (CBS) channel 3 of Hartford names the storms, thinking like me that it will cause confusion. He also quoted a forecaster from WRAL-TV (CBS) channel 5 of Raleigh who's against it.
 
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