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Siwsan

(26,298 posts) Thu Dec 20, 2012, 06:38 PM Dec 2012

Winter 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.

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Winter storm Draco??? Seriously, since when do winter storms get names?? (Original Post) Siwsan Dec 2012 OP

corporate marketing and the public will go along with this naturally nt msongs Dec 2012 #1

That's a cool name, though, Draco. ananda Dec 2012 #2

Being Welsh, I'm partial to Dragons, so maybe I should feel safe if Draco comes to call Siwsan Dec 2012 #8

Stupid... Rider3 Dec 2012 #3

I lived in Michigan that year... Kalidurga Dec 2012 #14

SInce this year HereSince1628 Dec 2012 #4

It's a Weather Channel thing. NOAA and NWS ignore it (nt) Recursion Dec 2012 #5

A a matter of fact, I think NOAA asked them to annabanana Dec 2012 #18

Weather channel started it this year. Local Northeast stations have done it for years. NutmegYankee Dec 2012 #6

And some nor'easters certainly operate on a similar kind of level Posteritatis Dec 2012 #9

It started this year more or less as a gag Posteritatis Dec 2012 #7

I was wondering the same thing. graywarrior Dec 2012 #10

No one glues themselves to their teevee Mariana Dec 2012 #16

harry potter thing--watch out for storm voldemort dembotoz Dec 2012 #11

I just said the same thing to someone not 10 minutes ago. What the hell? Gidney N Cloyd Dec 2012 #12

The Greater Snow of 2000 and the Greatest Snow of 2000. TexasProgresive Dec 2012 #17

When I was a kid we didn't name hurricanes. Glassunion Dec 2012 #13

I've been told I'm as old as dirt TexasProgresive Dec 2012 #20

National weather service had NO HAND IN THIS! This is all the weather channeling doing. diabeticman Dec 2012 #15

They gave us Frankenstorm and The Chiclone ... eom Kolesar Dec 2012 #27

Three storms away from GANDOLF Earth_First Dec 2012 #19

Q......????????? dixiegrrrrl Dec 2012 #25

No doubt it focus grouped well. xfundy Dec 2012 #21

Well, we had snowmageddon here in the DC area a few years ago. amandabeech Dec 2012 #22

Agreed. It's more than a little dumb. Maybe they should name them after porn stars. nt. OldDem2012 Dec 2012 #23

it's sexier for today's teevee spanone Dec 2012 #24

Next ... maybe there will be corporate sponsors for storms. LOL n/t RKP5637 Dec 2012 #26

msongs

(67,453 posts)

1. corporate marketing and the public will go along with this naturally nt

Reply to Siwsan (Original post)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 06:40 PM

Dec 2012

ananda

(28,879 posts)

2. That's a cool name, though, Draco.

Reply to Siwsan (Original post)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 06:41 PM

Dec 2012

Siwsan

(26,298 posts)

8. Being Welsh, I'm partial to Dragons, so maybe I should feel safe if Draco comes to call

Reply to ananda (Reply #2)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 06:49 PM

Dec 2012

But I still think it's pretty silly.

Rider3

(919 posts)

3. Stupid...

Reply to Siwsan (Original post)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 06:41 PM

Dec 2012

I'm in Boston. The closest thing we named was The Blizzard of '78. That was enough.

Kalidurga

(14,177 posts)

14. I lived in Michigan that year...

Reply to Rider3 (Reply #3)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 07:23 PM

Dec 2012

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)

4. SInce this year

Reply to Siwsan (Original post)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 06:42 PM

Dec 2012

I think it's a weather channel thing, not the weather service

Recursion

(56,582 posts)

5. It's a Weather Channel thing. NOAA and NWS ignore it (nt)

Reply to Siwsan (Original post)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 06:46 PM

Dec 2012

annabanana

(52,791 posts)

18. A a matter of fact, I think NOAA asked them to

Reply to Recursion (Reply #5)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 08:31 PM

Dec 2012

cut it out.

NutmegYankee

(16,201 posts)

6. Weather channel started it this year. Local Northeast stations have done it for years.

Reply to Siwsan (Original post)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 06:48 PM

Dec 2012

Helps separate out the nor'easters.

Posteritatis

(18,807 posts)

9. And some nor'easters certainly operate on a similar kind of level

Reply to NutmegYankee (Reply #6)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 06:49 PM

Dec 2012

White Juan was ... fun to be in the crosshairs of.

Posteritatis

(18,807 posts)

7. It started this year more or less as a gag

Reply to Siwsan (Original post)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 06:49 PM

Dec 2012

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)

10. I was wondering the same thing.

Reply to Siwsan (Original post)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 06:50 PM

Dec 2012

Why are we not naming nice days?

Mariana

(14,861 posts)

16. No one glues themselves to their teevee

Reply to graywarrior (Reply #10)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 07:48 PM

Dec 2012

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

(16,849 posts)

11. harry potter thing--watch out for storm voldemort

Reply to Siwsan (Original post)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 06:50 PM

Dec 2012

Gidney N Cloyd

(19,847 posts)

12. I just said the same thing to someone not 10 minutes ago. What the hell?

Reply to Siwsan (Original post)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 06:50 PM

Dec 2012

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)

17. The Greater Snow of 2000 and the Greatest Snow of 2000.

Reply to Gidney N Cloyd (Reply #12)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 08:30 PM

Dec 2012

Glassunion

(10,201 posts)

13. When I was a kid we didn't name hurricanes.

Reply to Siwsan (Original post)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 06:52 PM

Dec 2012

We just had storms called "What the hell was that?!"

TexasProgresive

(12,159 posts)

20. I've been told I'm as old as dirt

Reply to Glassunion (Reply #13)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 08:38 PM

Dec 2012

You must be older than dirt since they started naming hurricanes in my first year of life-1950.

diabeticman

(3,121 posts)

15. National weather service had NO HAND IN THIS! This is all the weather channeling doing.

Reply to Siwsan (Original post)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 07:28 PM

Dec 2012

Kolesar

(31,182 posts)

27. They gave us Frankenstorm and The Chiclone ... eom

Reply to diabeticman (Reply #15)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 09:42 PM

Dec 2012

Earth_First

(14,910 posts)

19. Three storms away from GANDOLF

Reply to Siwsan (Original post)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 08:32 PM

Dec 2012

I shit you not...

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)

25. Q......?????????

Reply to Earth_First (Reply #19)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 09:38 PM

Dec 2012

Wasn't that a James Bond character name?

Seriously, they are naming winter storms??????

xfundy

(5,105 posts)

21. No doubt it focus grouped well.

Reply to Siwsan (Original post)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 08:58 PM

Dec 2012

And adds excitement! to storms. Marketing BS, more on the way.

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