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Subscribe to RSSThe Weather Channel plans to name severe winter storms beginning this year. NBC's Al Roker reports.
During the upcoming 2012-13 winter season, The Weather Channel will name noteworthy winter storms. Our goal is to better communicate the threat and the timing of the significant impacts that accompany these events. The fact is, a storm with a name is easier to follow, which will mean fewer surprises and more preparation.
Hurricanes and tropical storms have been given names since the 1940s. In the late 1800s, tropical systems near Australia were named as well. Weather systems, including winter storms, have been named in Europe since the 1950s. Important dividends have resulted from attaching names to these storms:
- 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.
Related: Check Out the New Storm Names for the 2012-2013 Season
The question then becomes: “Why aren’t winter storms named?” In fact, in Europe the naming of weather systems has been going on for a long time. Here in the U.S., summer time storms including thunderstorms and tornadoes occur on such a small time and space scale that there would be little benefit and much confusion trying to attach names to them. However, winter weather is different. Winter storms occur on a time and space scale that is similar to tropical systems.
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In fact, historically many major winter storms have been named during or after the event has occurred. Examples include “The President’s Day Storm” and “Snowmageddon.” Yet, until now, there has been no organized naming system for these storms before they impact population centers.
One of the reasons this may be true is that there is no national center, such as the National Hurricane Center, to coordinate and communicate information on a multi-state scale to cover such big events. The National Centers for Environmental Prediction’s Hydrologic Prediction Center (HPC) does issue discussions and snowfall forecasts on a national scale but it does not fill the same role as the NHC in naming storms. Therefore, it would be a great benefit for a partner in the weather industry to take on the responsibility of developing a new concept.
This is where a world-class organization such as The Weather Channel will play a significant role. We have the meteorological ability, support and technology to provide the same level of reporting for winter storms that we have done for years with tropical weather systems.
In addition to providing information about significant winter storms by referring to them by name, the name itself will make communication and information sharing in the constantly expanding world of social media much easier. As an example, hash tagging a storm based on its name will provide a one-stop shop to exchange all of the latest information on the impending high-impact weather system.
Related: Cantore's Famous "Thunder Snow" Video | Recalling Snowtober 2011
There will be many differences from the “tropical model” for naming winter storms. Unlike tropical systems, winter weather takes place at latitudes under extreme energy and forcing from the atmosphere.
Often a weather system that is expected to strike a metropolitan area three days from now has not even completely formed in the atmosphere. Therefore, naming of winter storms will be limited to no more than three days before impact to ensure there is moderate to strong confidence the system will produce significant effects on a populated area. In addition, the impacts from winter systems are not as simple to quantify as tropical systems where a system is named once the winds exceed a certain threshold.
The process for naming a winter storm will reflect a more complete assessment of several variables that combine to produce disruptive impacts including snowfall, ice, wind and temperature. In addition, the time of day (rush hour vs. overnight) and the day of the week (weekday school and work travel vs. weekends) will be taken into consideration in the process the meteorological team will use to name storms.
This is an ambitious project. However, the benefits will be significant. Naming winter storms will raise the awareness of the public, which will lead to more pro-active efforts to plan ahead, resulting in less impact and inconvenience overall.
Coordination and information sharing should improve between government organizations as well as the media, leading to less ambiguity and confusion when assessing big storms that affect multiple states. It will even make it easier and more efficient for social media to communicate information regarding the storm resulting in a better informed public. And, on the occasion that different storms are affecting separate parts of the country, naming storms will allow for clearer communications.
Finally, it might even be fun and entertaining and that in itself should breed interest from our viewing public and our digital users. For all of these reasons, the time is right to introduce this concept for the winter season of 2012-13.
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This is a good idea as blizzards can smack down like hurricanes.
Obama wasn't in the list of storms. The Weather Channel should name the first storm Obama, the second one 'The Mother F'er.'
Nice job ! Political in one !
You must be great at parties. If you ever get invited, I mean.
Imigra Imigra...hide hide!
If Jim Cantore has anything to do with it, they had better come up with a lot of names. He can make any storm major.
Nice. If you left off the mother part...much more impact. Weather can be political. If 1/4" of snow falls in Washington, you would have thought WWIII had started...they are so dramatic there. I've seen it first hand. Personally, I don't care about named storms. What is it going to change...the future? Nope...thank God man can't control the weather systems...I'm sure Obama is trying to though. Could not resist.
Alan, wrong venue. Instead of sniping why don't you get a job and stop waiting around for your welfare check.
storms should have winter names like... A-Artic... B-BRRRR... C-Cold... D-Dang cold...E-Extra dang cold...F-F'n cold...
If it's really dangerous and kept changing directions we could name it Romney.
I think it's a great idea. They should go back to naming hurricanes exclusively after women, because they are so unpredictable. That would free up men's names for the blizzards. Appropriate, because you never know how many inches you're gonna get or how long it will last.
Blow me.
It makes sense. I went from experiencing the Mother Nature Hates Florida hurricane rampage of ’04 to blizzards in Minneapolis. When well-meaning co-workers and new friends tried to explain to me what a blizzard was, I said it’s a hurricane, except instead of losing your refrigerator contents when the power goes out, you just stick them outside. So I just prepped like I normally did during the summer, and so far it’s been right on the money, and I daresay even better prepared than some of my neighbors who have been living here for years.
However, I do believe naming the storms will make the whole winter weather business a little sexier, and therefore more people will tune in. If anyone can exploit the weather for ratings, it’s The Weather Channel.
Personally I think it's a stupid idea. Those of us who live in Blizzard areas remember them quite well.
Blizzard of 78', the April Fools Storm of 96', last years October Surprise.
But of course, if it's just keeps piling up, burying us, with no end in sight, we can name it Obozo.
each storm should be named after cuss words, since that is what everyone one is doing as the things move in. "And Winter Storm $@&* is slowing moving up the east coast dumping a whole bunch of $@&* all over the place."
Confuse with hurricanes.
Janine, I agree with you. I think the impromptu names connected to some current circumstance, holiday, date, etc are much cooler and more memorable.
I vote the first B named storm be named for former President "Dubya" Bush, the F one for FEMA and if we reach T, that belongs to TSA. Those 3 things are the worst things to hit the Americas since the new Millennium.
More unneeded crap.. warning that it's coming is plenty, I don't need a name.
I think I can follow a pending winter snow storm just fine without giving it a name.
A more cynical view of this is that it's just another way for the weather channel to do what cable news does for current events: hype the living crap out of it until half of us are scarred to death and the other half are numbed into apathy and inattention.
I like the idea too. Winter storms can be deadly, the worst blizzard I lived through was in January 1975. More than fifty people died and livestock losses were over 100 thousand head of cattle, sheep, and hogs. North and South Dakota, along with Minnesota and northern Iowa were hit the hardest. It raged for 3 days with winds gusting over hurricane force, 0 visibility, temperatures in the 20'sfell to sub-zero on days 2 & 3. Snow drifts covered homes on the north and west sides of towns, they were hard enough to drive over with a car or truck and barely leave a tire tread mark. Awesome power of nature.
Not sure I've ever heard of anyone die of scars....
I guess this is better than 3rd tier news stations trying to make up "disaster" names for every snow flake that comes along.
I remember that storm and the 10 others that year along with all of the ones that closed our school during the first week of March for years. Eventually the snowstorms that come then were just referred to as the tournament storms or March Madness as they fell during the tournaments.
Up here in MN and the Dakotas they will run out of names before it's even officially winter.
Joe, Isaac was the perfect example of people lulled into a fall sense of security because it was only a Cat 1, and the t.v. weather guy was just "hyping it for ratings." Maybe if some people had actually paid attention to the message instead trying to be all cool and blaise about it like you, there wouldn't have been such losses of life and property would have been better protected.
So, go ahead and call it hype. When you're on t.v. being rescued from your flooded home in your underwear because you didn't pay attention to the "hype," maybe you'll rethink your lazy attitude.
What a stupid idea. What ratings-craving NBC-TV exec thought this up (and where in the world did those dumb names come from???)?
I sure liked the Weather Channel a whole lot better before it sold its soul to NBC. Now when I want to watch, oh I don't know, the weather??? all I get is reality TV about hicks who harvest ice and people climbing windmills and other things having little if nothing to do with actual weather. And they don't even show the current weather or the forecasts during those shows, because we can't clutter up the TV screen with real weather information when it's showing some guy in a boat shooting at an iceberg when his engine conks out and "OH NO HE'S DRIFTING TOWARD THE ICEBERG AND THIS IS IN THE SAME WATERS WHERE THE TITANIC CRASHED INTO AN ICEBERG TOO" like somehow there's some correlation between a hick family in a fishing boat and an actual tragedy where 1500 people died. Oh, and let's not forget that we now get subjected to that blowhard "meteorologist" Roker, who should just stay on fluffy "Today" where he belongs and quit trying to pretend to be a real weatherman. NBC ruined a perfectly good cable channel.
Taxcut..., I agree 100% with regard to whats happened to "The Weather Channel" since NBC took it over. Went from watching it multiple times/day to almost never. IT SUCKS! Are you listening NBC? Al should take a long hike on a short pier.
I dunno, I think I'm a little more inclined to agree with Joe, especially the last part of his comment. That is actually kind of what I thought, great now it will be easier to hype this up. Let's face it with all the ways to get a weather forecast out there and the seeming need to compete with other news outlets and entertainment these guys are going to hype it up to get the viewers. The winter weather seems to be the worst, I always joke they are in cahoots with the grocery stores to help boost sales in the slow winter months.
Personally I barely watch the weather channel unless I want to catch a little more insight on a hurricane coming ashore or something (even then only for a little bit); it is mostly useless and for local weather forecast that I want now, the weather that affects me, way better options. It seems to focus little areas that matter to me but great if you live on the coasts, especially New England, when they actually show weather stuff and not the other BS on there now. Otherwise I just use their website to get my local info and that is it really. Don't watch local news to much but when severe weather is present I use weather channel site, local news stations for TV, and even weather underground or NOAA site depending on what is going on. Basically Internet is my #1 weather source with local news for TV side during severe events.
I agree this will make it easier for communication purposes but these guys do overhype it. Not saying its not bad to try to get people's attention but sometimes it gets a little on the silly side and even downright irresponsible. There is a balance here and I agree lean a little more to overdoing it but they should know better and should not go to far all in the name of ratings. Also, when you live in any of these areas that are prone to Hurricanes, major winter weather, or in Tornado alley where severe storms are more likely in the spring and summer you shouldn't have to see info that is hyped and sensationalized to get you to pay attention. Weather is part of life and most people should be experienced enough with their area and smart enough to pay attention when they need to. Those who don't well, that's how you thin the herd.
At any rate hope it doesn't get to over done and does work out for the best.
It is time
Why name them.. here in the NE our local news station starts interrupting broadcasts 24hrs before the event... then remains on throughout the event.. I don't need a name when I can't even get away from a storm :) Although I will say I have never after 45yrs understood how so many people can be without bread and milk right before a storm hits.. not to mention how long do they think they will be "stuck" inside LOL Personally we stock up on chips, dip, beer, soda - things we don't eat on normal days :)
I thought we already had some names and phrases for winter storms. It's snowing like a MF out there. It's colder than a well diggers ass. That cold winds blowing like a sob. Stuff like that.
Panic Moon, I think hype should be reserved for the Isaac's of the world so that when they come around we take note of the serious tone; instead, most people remember the eight prior storms that promised death and destruction only to deliver nothing of the sort.
Also, it's unfortunate you feel the need to start labeling people, e.g., "lazy." Have you ever asked yourself why some people feel so comfortable being rude online?
Anything but "Winter Storm Katrina"...
...eh, no Winter Storm "Peggy" either...that's my ex wife, that'll be too much for this cowboy to handle
This is nothing more than a way for the Weather Channel (aka NBC) to hype up things to generate more viewers in order to put more money in their pockets. With no set criteria for what winter storms should be named, they will be naming every system that drops more than two snowflakes just to generate more viewership for the Weather Channel. This is one of the most ridiculous ideas I have heard. You do not need to put a name on a winter storm to get people to pay attention. What makes this even more absurd is that you are going to have a private corporation deciding when and if to name a storm, with the company being the sole beneficiary of the hype created by doing so. This will end up being so abused in their quest to drive ratings and make more money that it will have the opposite of it's stated intent. Instead of raising awareness about approaching winter storms people will start tuning it out as just more meaningless hype.
It's better then saying "The Great Storm," or " "The Big Ice Storm" or "The Worst Blizzard" or "The Ultra Freeze" or "The Great Snow" or "The Great Frost." Add years on to it and there you have the names, We had 'The Great Blizzard of 2010."
Joe:
I tend to agree. I think this is just a mechanism for Cantore to get more face time.
Agreed!! Also, from what I'm reading around the web, it looks like TWC may have 'stolen' the idea from the site "The Weather Space" which has been naming winter storms for quite a while now.
I am still waiting for Hurricane Cathy/Kathy/Cathie.....Cathleen - or Katherine one of the most popular names of the 60's and no storms to speak of.
Katie is really popular - they've never used that one either.
Look at your home owners insurance deductable for damage due to "named" storms......very high. Thanks WC I'm sure the insurance companies are loving this bit of news.
That's a good point Serpen.
They are in ka-hootz with the media. I agree Serpen. Sick isn't it.
A named storm needs to be named by a governmental agency- not a for profit media outlet . . .
I hope you are right.....
No reason to hope . . . here is a sample very common definition:
The following definition is added: "Named Storm" means a storm system that has been declared and named by the National Weather Service. The duration of the "named storm" includes the time period, in Virginia: a. beginning at the time a storm is designated a "named storm"; b. continuing for the time period during which the "named storm" conditions exist anywhere in Virginia; and c. ending 72 hours following the termination of the last "named storm" watch or warning issued for any part of Virginia by the National Weather Service.
Having been a "victim" of the practice of changing deductables due to damage from a named storm, I feel that the insurance lobby is all for this. I guess it is one way for more people to experience losses that are not covered due to icreased deductables for "named" storms. For example: a 10% deductable in a named storm amounts to $18,500 repairs before insurance pays a dime.
Serpin - you are exactly right NBC just bought a insurance company. Remember they are hear to give you the news. As far as the storms with names tell these losers to get a life, we already have a name for those storms it is called winter.
Comanchedriver, interesting that your policy has that. I just looked at the definition on mine and it sure doesn't mention any governmental agency. Of course snow isn't exactly an issue here so I am not overly concerned but obviously my carrier does write in other states including the snow belt area.
And oddly enough I always thought my higher deductible applied to all wind related damage (i.e. hurricanes and tornadoes) but it looks like I'm better off getting knocked out by a tornado than a hurricane. Can't wait to have to educate my insurance carrier that tornadoes are common in hurricanes in the north east quadrant.
BTW Adolla, I hope you realize it isn't going to be just the insurance lobby that would be all for this. The federal government would too... for the simple reason that you (quite rightly) can't collect money from FEMA if the ONLY reason you are submitting a claim is because your uninsured/uncovered loss in whole or in part is due to insurance deductible(s). In other words, those of us who live in hurricane alley should quite rightly be responsible for living here and that means figuring your policy's storm deductible into your budget. Everyone here should have a fund set aside to cover their deductible. And quite frankly if people can't afford their deductible then they should seriously consider moving.
Why are they limiting the naming to major metropolitan areas where there is plenty of shelter? It would seem that names would be more beneficial to remote communities where storms have deadly results to people and livestock.
Kind of demonstrates that the entire naming thing is kind of pointless.
Michael...you missed the point of that part of the article. What they said is that the impact to major metro areas will contribute to the overall factors that play into whether they name a storm or not. They are not naming the storm "for" a metro area....they are looking at the map and thinking..."that storm is going to hit 7 metro areas as it tracks across the midwest....we better name that storm." It is also only one factor. It sounds like there's a threshold and if putting all the factors together makes the "name it or don't name it" question tip over the threshold then they name it.
So I guess they won't give it a name until it crosses the Mississippi River.
I think naming major winter storms is a good idea, but severe storms can be very localized. Another problem is that Jim Cantore can make any storm major!
True...they drive along and look at a culvert (only one in the whole city) that is flooding and make it HUGE. Or they look for the only building with a roof torn off. Okay...am being a bit cat-e, but it gets old the sensationalizing of events unless they are truly "an event". Do they ever read the comments in MSN?
Is this Jim Cantore guy one of the weather idiots that stands out in the storm telling everybody how dangerous it is to stand out in a storm then wonders why people dont take his warning seriously?
@peanutGallery...thanks for the giggle.
Anyhow, the names they picked are pretty cool...a chance to explore Norse (and other mythologies,) perhaps....
Cant wait for SNL to do a skit on them. And PeanutGallery is quite right. Cantore and the others put on their serious faces and tell everyone how dangerous a storm is while they stand in the middle of it. "Look LOOK !.....see that chair fly by..Its very very very very dangerous out here folks, but i'm a professional with steel for skin......so I'm okay !!. Now back to the Bimbo"
Puh-lease. A local TV station tried this a few years ago, and it was a dud. The basic problem is that the overwhelming majority of winter storms have limited impacts... maybe a few inches of snow and an extra 10 minutes spent driving to work for one day and, even with modern science, it is difficult to pinpoint those impacts with any accuracy in the major population centers (i.e. in the I-95 corridor) until literally hours before the event. Yes, this might make sense for the rare truly major storm (i.e. one that will dump 6+" of snow over a large area in southern areas and 12+" in more northerly locations), but sometimes years go by without a truly major storm impacting the United States. Point being, we are going to hear a multitude of "named winter storms" this winter, and all (or almost all) will not result in a single snowflake in our own backyards. After a few storms like that, the names will become background noise.
Well said. Does anyone remember the "No Name" storm that hit Florida back in the early 90's? I was living there and that WAS one heck of a storm. It was like a hurricane popped up over night to a category 3-4...and slammed into us. Caught everyone off guard. Notice the name, "No Name". Good one.
In NJ, we had one in December 1992 called the storm with no name. It was a bad nor'easter and it is still referred to as the storm of 1992. Gee, we already named.
You obviously have never lived in the Midwest: N/S Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Oklahoma and a couple other states get 3-8 storms a year with 6+ inches. I had a storm 2 yrs ago where we got enough snow to cover stop signs. This storm lasted 3 days and affected several states. This isn't as rare as you think....and, oh, hurricanes are probably less common than major snow storms...and they also usually only affect a few states, maybe 1-5 states...about the same as winter storms. More destruction, yes, but didn't see that as a factor in the naming of winter storms.
Finally, if you think the Weather Channel is local then you already lost credibility. They are probably the number one weather authority in the nation....they make a great focal point for naming storms.
Seems to me this will create more chaos. Already they overhype storms and people run out and buy everything at the grocery and hardware stores, as if it is a hurricane. Snowstorms don't usually shut off your water. They can leave you without power but that's a big storm, usually ice. I bet they start closing schools more often too.
lol, as if people will suddenly need 10 loaves of bread and 5 gallons of milk to survive the 2 days it may take the snow plows to get to their street.
Ken, the overwhelming majority of named tropical systems also have limited to no impact. How many have there been this year alone that never hit land? That doesn't make them any less of an example of their kind of weather system. The biggest difference here is that these named winter storms WILL have some impact; they won't even name them unless they're sure of that.
The TV stations up here in the frozen north have been naming winter storms for years. I don't remember A, but we went through Bob and Crystal last winter - a light year for storms.
wow... this is great news. Yet another way for "TWC" to sensationlize the weather (similar to what cable pundits do to the news), in an effort to bolster ratings and scare the masses more than is necessary. nothing I like better when snowed in is to have TWC on my TV all day long, only now we get names - can't wait for "Q" to come our way.
You sit and watch the weather channel all day when you are snowed in? Wow, what a life! Try reading a book assuming you know how to read.
hey Pat - apparently you don't know how to read. re-read the post: SARCASM.
It tough making weather exciting. At least cspan has a lot of clowns to report on. ;)
Can't wait for 'Q' either just so I can watch all of the Trekkies out there lose their s**t.
KHAAAAAN! KHAAAAAN! KHAAAAAN!
Are these named winter storms just for the ones that hit the lower 48? We get hurricane strength storms up here in Alaska every year. We just call them February and March.
LOL. Good one
LOLOLOLOL....vereeee good!
Hahahahahaha...breathe....hahahahahahaha....breathe....hahahahaha. Been there, done that!
This is way stupid...... Sounds like they just need to give Jim Cantore something he can dramatically emote. It's like climatic Kabuki theater driven by the need to personalize it into a well developed screenplay character with human qualities. Increasingly, all television, including the Weather Channel is turning into mind sucking garbage.
so MSNBC hasa headline that reads 'Winter Storms to be named.' This implies that the NWS is going to name the storms but, instead, its cross advertising for the Weather channel . . . really??
I know media organizations try to cross pollinate as much as possible and try to drive viewers and traffic but making up news? I guess this election cycle I should not be surprised . . .
Sensationalizing the weather ? Oh Boy !
We have seen the effects of attempted sensationalism of the NEWS. It has evolved into mostly lies , designed to sway opinions toward the journalistic medias chosen political ideology, rather then the reporting of historical facts, that it use to be.
Whats the chance this notion was designed to bolster the "green thing" and "global crisis"
NBC can now screw up the WEATHER just as they manipulate what some perceive to be the NEWS.
Each storm should be named Obama.
No, each storm should be named GOP.. Everytime they speak, a storm of fact checking is required. ;)
It would appear that this Fruitcake used "GOP" as a name, because they couldn't manage to spell Romney.
Great, glad to see our priorities are in order. I vote the first name to be male gender; Dick Glasscock.
I've named Chinooks for years , usually after local politicians , local color, and old biddies.
I live on the east slope of the Rockies in northern Wyoming, where we regularly get those " chinook" winds in winter, maybe 5-6 times a season. Winds coming over the mountains from the West are compressed by cold air above them, and those winds warm up and get drier when they squirt out across the Front Range. The temperature change can be dramatic: Chinooks have been known to raise the ambient air temperature by as much as 60 degrees in as little as half an hour. Chinook is an Innuit ( Eskimo) language term for " little snow eater".
Worth naming when that happens. Chinook Clarabelle was memorable. My municipality street crews sorta unoffically counts on chinooks to do snow removal.
is this paving the path for " Blizzard " insurance because they don't need "hurricane " insurance?
Athena: The Greek goddess of wisdom, courage, inspirations, justice, mathematics and all things wonderful.
Brutus: Roman Senator and best known assassin of Julius Caesar.
Caesar: Title used by Roman and Byzantine emperors.
Draco: The first legislator of Athens in Ancient Greece.
Euclid: A mathematician in Ancient Greece, the father of geometry.
Freyr: A Norse god associated with fair weather, among other things.
Gandolf: A character in a 1896 fantasy novel in a pseudo-medieval countryside.
Helen: In Greek mythology, Helen of Troy was the daughter of Zeus.
Iago: Enemy of Othello in Shakespeare’s play, Othello.
Jove: The English name for Jupiter, the Roman god of light and sky.
Khan: Mongolian conqueror and emperor of the Mongol empire.
Luna: The divine embodiment of the moon in Roman mythology.
Magnus: The Father of Europe, Charlemagne the Great, in Latin: Carolus Magnus.
Nemo: A Greek boy’s name meaning "from the valley," means "nobody" in Latin.
Orko: The thunder god in Basque mythology.
Plato: Greek philosopher and mathematician, who was named by his wrestling coach.
Q: The Broadway Express subway line in New York City.
Rocky: A single mountain in the Rockies.
Saturn: Roman god of time, also the namesake of the planet Saturn in our solar system.
Triton: In Greek mythology, the messenger of the deep sea, son of Poseidon.
Ukko: In Finnish mythology, the god of the sky and weather.
Virgil: One of ancient Rome’s greatest poets.
Walda: Name from Old German meaning “ruler.”
Xerxes: The fourth king of the Persian Achaemenid Empire, Xerxes the Great.
Yogi: People who do yoga.
Zeus: In Greek mythology, the supreme ruler of Mount Olympus and the gods who lived there.
You probably just summarized TWC's next 26 fluff pieces.
Actually it was copypasta from their website. Just in case people were interested where they came from.
Q is a minor god from the Star Trek Series. I know I just showed my geekness but it seems that the names were chosen by geeks.
They will regret using Iago.....it will take those on-camera morons two weeks to learn how to pronounce it properly....and the storm will be long gone by then. They need to stick to simple, one syllable, easily pronounced works....like "bob" or "mom" And Orko? They will all think it's a whale....
I thought Rocky was that blonde dude from "Rocky Horror Picture Show".
I am amazed to see that you pulled that directly from TWC? Especially since some of them are clearly wrong?
I personally hoped they'd use Gandalf, with two As, but whatever.
Ray Butt, yeah, I did just paste it from their website. Some of them are wrong I agree.
game kid, I was hoping they would use Gandalf too. I was also hoping that Luna was a reference to a character from... uh... a show I watch. But that'll never happen in a million years. =P
Considering how heavily pop culture influences our world these days, I highly doubt most people will know the intended meanings behind a lot of the names. Instead, when people hear the name "Draco," many of them will think of the Harry Potter character, "Nemo" will be associated with a little lost clown fish, "Q" would be the one responsible for James Bond's gadgets, "Yogi" will remind many of a cartoon bear who loves picnic baskets, and - for those of us who grew up in the 80's - the name "Orko" will remind many of a certain character from the He-Man cartoons. And, who would be able to resist the urge to angrily yell out "KHAAAAN!" just as they start to shovel all the snow from their sidewalks?
The Weather Channel so "Jumped The Shark" when they were bought up by NBC. Used to keep them on in our pilots lounge when they were a serious WX station but not anymore. To much Good Morning America crap and giggling so called "Meteorologists" The Weather Channel has turned into a joke.
I have an app for that now.
Yeah...at least my app doesn't giggle....
I guess that explains why I can't get my local forecast when there's a storm bearing down. Too much of everything except weather news going on there now. They're totally forgotten their purpose.
I agree used to tune in couple times a day,don't anymore and cancelled a subscription I had with them when NBC bought them. Dull