Do you think naming Winter storms is a good idea?

I didn’t know they did that!! How bizarre!! Maybe it’s supposed to make them seem cute or innocuous rather than potentially life threatening?

Stupid yes. I agree, I can understand hurricanes and certain big storms but naming all storms is overkill. They should also name them real names, not peoples names, descriptive names.
Andrew and Katrina just don’t cut it. Call them what they are ” tropical storm shit fan.” lol

I think it is silly unless it is a particularly distinctive event.

Tropical storms that are named are cyclonic low pressure systems that are easily distinguished. The weather back east this winter is more like a structural pressure ridge directing the jet stream on a different path.

I’m a software developer, and we will often have names for various projects. It is shorthand and is easier than going into a long description about what we are referring to. I would imagine that meteorologists benefit from the same type of thing. They are often tracking multiple storm systems. It seems reasonable that they would name or number them.

Is your objection that they are using “friendly” names rather than numeric labels?

The National Weather Service does not acknowledge the naming of winter storms by The Weather Channel. http://mashable.com/2013/10/30/weather-channel-winter-storm-names/

I just saw it the first time today, @nebule. I have no reason to doubt @hey_now, so it’s hopefully confined to TWC.

Something like TSSF141, for descriptive, the year and occurrence, @Coloma?

Tropical storms seem a bit more predictable as far as path and duration, @zenvelo.

It’s a combination of the cutesy names and equating a winter store with a hurricane, @hominid, for me.

@ibstubro I don’t get why they started doing it either.

@ibstubro nah, more like TS Chaos, carnage, drowned rat, monsoonsoon, house spinner, splintered dreams. Hurricane Hella. lol

Nope, just an solution looking for a problem.

I asked about this on my facebook about a week ago. It was then that I learned that just the weather channel names winter storms. I don’t think agree with naming winter storms. They are not tracked like hurricanes. People don’t have to evacuate. Snow is a common event every winter. Hurricanes I would not call common even in places that get them with some regularity.

What I don’t get is the current characterization of snow as “snow showers”. Huh?

As far as I know it’s just a stupid Weather Channel thing.

In the grand scheme of things it has never even crossed my radar.

I think so, because I’m getting tired of using people’s name or some sophisticated name.

@Blondesjon I don’t believe you….a Hurricane named Blondesjon would strike fear in anyone in it’s path and admit you have fantasized about this. Lets start a petition to name the next “B” hurricane Blondesjon….Jellies, email your vote here

DirecTV quit carrying TWC so they are trying to be innovative with catchy names for winter storms. I don’t thinks it’s that big of a deal personally.
If we do a get a really bad one, historically speaking it will be easier to refer back to the weather event.
“Folks in the Northeast will no doubt remember winter storm Freddie back in 2014.”

@dougiedawg This is the second year TWC has used winter storm names. TWC was dropped from DTV last month. There’s no correlation. My link above gives some information about why TWC started naming winter storms. We can thank Twitter for winter storm names.

I tuned to TWc during the last really bad winter storm across the south and their coverage was terrible. They were covering Charleston. Who gives a damn about that location? It is off the main interstates, the town basically was closed up, it isn’t a big toursit time, and nothing was going on. Local news can cover Charleston. I had friends stuck because major interstates were closed all over the south. I65, I10, I55 had closures and some fatalities, and of course Atlanta was awful.