"Nemo"? OK, I missed the bulletin - so why does a forken snowstorm have a name?
Weather Channel and the Networks regularly break out in hives about any kind of storm, especially hurricanes. But now we have to have names for snowstorms and noreasters?
Why? Is it to make people even more hysterical about the weather than they normally are? It's bad enough that anytime there is a hint of snowflakes in the forecast you can't buy any milk or bread (or, for some reason, bananas, which my local Stop & Shop insists is the biggest seller in a storm) because goofy shoppers run out and buy a supply that could last maybe a month. Like when did anyone ever get stuck in the house due to snow for more than a day or so?
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Here are the historic blizzards/major snowstorms for Colorado--especially Denver and front range, with emphasis on the three largest. All are readily referenced--merely from the month and year they occurred. Why it would be necessary to name every predicted snow accumulation is beyond me...
In the first week of December, 1913, 45.7 inches of snow buried the city, making snow removal a terrible challenge. The open space in front of the state capitol building, now Civic Center Park, was the destination of hundreds and hundreds of horse-drawn wagonloads of snow.
A blizzard descended on the city on Christmas Eve, 1982, and dumped almost two feet of snow over the following day, virtually closing the city. People unable to get to work found recreational opportunities and schoolkids, naturally, got busy.
In the heaviest snowfall since 1913, a mid-March blizzard in 2003 dropped 31.8 inches in Denver, making it one of the costliest storms to address, at a whopping $33.6 million, based on insurance claims.
Here is the complete breakdown from NOAA:
1. 45.7 inches December 1-5, 1913
2. 31.8 inches March 17-19, 2003
3. 30.4 inches November 2-4, 1946
4. 23.8 inches December 24, 1982
5. 23.0 inches April 23, 1885
6. 22.7 inches October 20-23, 1906
7. 21.9 inches October 24-25, 1997
8. 21.5 inches November 26-27, 1983
9. 20.7 inches December 20-21, 2006
10. 19.3 inches January 29-31, 1883
11. 19.0 inches April 24-25, 1935
12. 18.7 inches March 5-6, 1983
13. 18.5 inches March 20-22, 1944
14. 18.2 inches April 17-19, 1920
15. 18.0 inches March 19-20, 1907
16. 18.0 inches March 31-Apr 1, 1891
17. 17.7 inches November 19-21, 1979
http://blogs.denverpost.com/library/2012/02/02/a-list-of-colorados-historic-blizzards-and-snowstorms/
Winter storms don't need cutesy names. 
eta: Blizzard of '78 kept many in the Boston area housebound for 3 or more days and the roads didn't get cleared for almost a week.
say the same thing. 
