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02-08-2013, 12:47 PM
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The weather channel did it.
The Weather Channel announced Tuesday that they planned to start naming winter storms, similar to how the National Weather Service names tropical systems. Why?
"-Naming a storm raises awareness.
-Attaching a name makes it much easier to follow a weather system’s progress.
-A storm with a name takes on a personality all its own, which adds to awareness.
-In today’s social media world, a name makes it much easier to reference in communication.
-A named storm is easier to remember and refer to in the future."
They are actually all mythical names.. gods, goddesses, etc.
Very funny article about it here:
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.co...rm-named-nemo/
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02-08-2013, 02:59 PM
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Originally Posted by AGDee
The weather channel did it.
The Weather Channel announced Tuesday that they planned to start naming winter storms, similar to how the National Weather Service names tropical systems. Why?
"-Naming a storm raises awareness.
-Attaching a name makes it much easier to follow a weather system’s progress.
-A storm with a name takes on a personality all its own, which adds to awareness.
-In today’s social media world, a name makes it much easier to reference in communication.
-A named storm is easier to remember and refer to in the future."
They are actually all mythical names.. gods, goddesses, etc.
Very funny article about it here:
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.co...rm-named-nemo/ |
This storm is also being referred to as Charlotte. Apparently another station (I forget which) has also taken it upon themselves to name winter storms. Of course, Nemo seems to be the more popular name.. for obvious reasons..
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02-08-2013, 12:50 PM
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Best of luck to everyone in the affected areas, stay warm and safe!
Also, for chuckles click here: http://www.buzzfeed.com/jtes/survivi...nding-nemo-gif
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02-08-2013, 02:26 PM
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Storm of '13 doesn't quite seem... scary. It comes off as a story my grandmother would have told.
Says the girl who has seen one or two flakes this year, but has snow tires on her car.
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02-08-2013, 02:30 PM
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Mandatory road closings in MA declared by Governor Patrick. All non emergency personnel must be off all public roads by 4pm. Nemo is gettin' real. (Though so far I have maybe 1")
Let's trade, y'all can come check out the snow from my house (which loses power like it's the house's job), and I'll go lounge somewhere warm!
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02-08-2013, 02:34 PM
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Mandatory road closings in MA declared by Governor Patrick. All non emergency personnel must be off all public roads by 4pm. Nemo is gettin' real. (Though so far I have maybe 1")
Let's trade, y'all can come check out the snow from my house (which loses power like it's the house's job), and I'll go lounge somewhere warm!
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02-08-2013, 02:58 PM
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My mom was to fly to Puerto Rico with a layover at JFK...today. Womp womp. She's now leaving tomorrow, flying direct to San Juan.
ETA: I had to laugh at the some of the first storms named this year--"Draco" and "Luna". I wondered if we would get Harry, Ron, Hermoine, Snape, etc. 
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02-08-2013, 03:49 PM
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AEPhi alum, you went to WPI, right? are you still in this area?
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02-08-2013, 04:07 PM
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Nope, MIT. Which is closed. MIT NEVER closes.
I live in Connecticut now, but I'm down on Long Island right now as my mother is in the hospital. Both CT and LI are getting slammed, but Boston is supposed to get REALLY slammed.
Stay safe, everyone.
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02-08-2013, 04:36 PM
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It's pretty much over for us, cheerfulgreek.
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02-08-2013, 10:48 PM
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It's pretty much over for us, cheerfulgreek.
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I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
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02-08-2013, 05:32 PM
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Stay safe everyone!!
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02-08-2013, 08:16 PM
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I want to be on the storm naming committee.
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02-08-2013, 08:18 PM
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People keep asking on the news what "thunder snow is". This makes me think they are idiots, what does it sound like?
However, I just saw that we're projected for a few hours of 3-7" of snow an hour. WTF?! 7" an hour? that's insane. I always thought like 1-2" an hour was heavy snow.... *cranking heat in anticipation of power loss*
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02-08-2013, 08:24 PM
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That is the difference between a snow storm and a blizzard.. that, plus the wind. When you consider that a tenth of an inch of rain = one inch of snow (roughly), that's less than an inch of rain an hour. And you easily get that during a rainy nor'easter, right? I hope you don't lose power!
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