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Posted by ElectricWhite on 05-11-2015 at 08:06:
Winter Storm Names 2015
For the past few days I couldn't shake the feeling that I was forgetting something. Then, as I heard a couple of residents here at Hillcrest Village talk about the upcoming winter, it dawned on me -- I haven't looked at the Weather Channel's latest Winter Storm Names!
The Weather Channel has also included the definitions for each name, but I didn't include most of those...(but I did stick in a few comments!)
The List
Ajax -- isn't there a bathroom cleaner by that name?
Bella
Cara
Delphi
Echo
Ferus
Goliath -- how much do you wanna bet this will be the weakest storm?
Hera
Ilias
Jonas
Kayla
Lexi
Mars
Nacio -- short for Ignacio
Olympia
Petros
Quo
Regis
Selene
Troy
Ursula -- Can't she be satisfied with being the villian in "The Little Mermaid"?
Vexo -- Latin for "I annoy" or "I harass"
Waylon -- Smithers has a dark side!
Xenos
Yolo -- As in YOLO, the annoying abbreviaion for You Only Live Once that annoying idiots yell before doing something dangerous
Zandor
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Posted by msannomalley on 05-11-2015 at 13:40:
Most of my fellow northern climate dwellers usually make fun of these snowstorm names because we think its stupid to name them in the first place.
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Posted by ChrisW on 05-11-2015 at 20:50:
Naming storms can backfire, too. With hurricanes, they find that if they use a female name, people underestimate the warnings and get hurt or killed.
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Posted by msannomalley on 05-11-2015 at 22:03:
I can understand naming hurricanes because hurricanes don't happen that often and they're particularly brutal. But the criteria they use to determine if its a snowstorm, well, that happens most of the time in the winter. Maybe it's because I live on the Great Plains and I'm used to blizzards and stuff, but it seems like a bunch of hype about something that isn't that bad.
Snowstorm Yolo? Oh, I hope they don't get that far down the alphabet.
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Posted by ChrisW on 05-11-2015 at 23:26:
That is a bit odd. We don't tend toward snowstorms so much where I am so I hadn't even noticed they were naming them.
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Posted by ElectricWhite on 06-11-2015 at 01:32:
The reason hurricanes (typhoons, cyclones, etc.) are named is that it's easier and quicker for different weather services to communicate the location of the storm. At one time, a weather service would "name" a storm using its latitude and longitude that they first saw it; often the same storm would get several names and would cause confusion. (Plus it would be really hard for ordinary folk to grasp the seriousness of the situation -- naming a hurricane makes it an advisary.)
Now, the whole idea of naming winter storms is strictly a Weather Channel ploy to sound like the ultimate weather authority and, hopefully, get more viewers. (Part of me is surprised that this thing has lasted so long.)
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Posted by Becky Rock on 06-11-2015 at 02:32:
It's stupid. All I care about is will it hit my area and with how many inches.
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Posted by Transmute Jun on 06-11-2015 at 16:48:
I'm just glad we don't have to worry about named storms where we live.
One day, we'll have an earthquake, and then you guys can point fingers at us. 
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Posted by msannomalley on 06-11-2015 at 16:52:
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This was something the Weather Channel took upon themselves to do for winter storms. My guess is for hype and ratings. My local TV stations do a better job of warning me about bad weather without actually naming them.
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Posted by ElectricWhite on 07-11-2015 at 04:13:
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What, you think we aren't pointing fingers at you already?
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Posted by Becky Rock on 11-11-2015 at 01:38:
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Watch out. Some famous scientist claims there will be a major quake in California in the next 3 years.
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Posted by ChrisW on 11-11-2015 at 03:46:
They're always claiming a major quake is coming. 
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Posted by Becky Rock on 11-11-2015 at 21:17:
I like to check a site that keeps track of earthquakes. In 2007, we visited Yellowstone. About a month later, they started having swarms of earthquakes at 3 or lower. It lasted for several months. Couldn't help but think about the fact its a giant caldera letting off steam.
Right now the hotspot for earthquakes in the US is Oklahoma. They're blaming fracking and drilling for natural gas.
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Posted by Tengu on 11-11-2015 at 21:27:
Is it just me or do the names all look like they are from Inquisitors in Warhammer 40K?
All that faux greek and neolatin?
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Posted by ChrisW on 11-11-2015 at 21:44:
Becky: Yes, swarms of small quakes are definitely preferable to big ones. Unfortunately, a number of studies have shown that fracking leads to more quakes.
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