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[camwyn]

Our long national nightmare is over. I refer, of course, to the presidential campaigning season.

In unrelated news the Weather Channel has decided to start naming big-ass winter storms. This is actually pretty much how hurricane naming got started, with weather forecasters naming various large storms to make them easier to talk about on TV without confusing people, so I'm good with that. What I find amusing is the current name list.

Athena
Brutus
Caesar
Draco
Euclid
Freyr
Gandolf (their spelling; apparently this spelling is "A character in a 1896 fantasy novel in a pseudo-medieval countryside.")
Helen
Iago
Jove
Khan
Luna
Magnus
Nemo
Orko ("The thunder god in Basque mythology" OH COME ON WE ALL KNOW YOU WERE WATCHING HE-MAN)
Plato
Q ("The Broadway Express subway line in New York City." Uh huh.)
Rocky
Saturn
Triton
Ukko
Virgil
Walda
Xerxes
Yogi ("People who do yoga")
Zeus


So... yeah.

Comments

[not_my_sandbox]

haha, awesome.

Well, maybe not so awesome since they are big-ass storms.

But a big ass storm elsewhere in the country means that New Mexico gets a little rain. Maybe. Sometimes. At least the storms that move west to east, anyhow. *Still fondly recalls the storm that turned into the Snowpocalypse*

[genarti]

...That's kind of fantastic.

I'm not sure how I feel about naming winter storms, since I'm rather fond of the good old THE BLIZZARD OF AUGHT-ONE wording that makes everyone sound like creaky old New Englanders on their porches. But if you have to name 'em, man, go big.

[gramarye1971]

I'm rather fond of the good old THE BLIZZARD OF AUGHT-ONE wording that makes everyone sound like creaky old New Englanders on their porches.

I agree! Listening to my parents talking about the Blizzard of '66 (almost six feet of snowfall with drifts high enough to bury a house), and having nostalgic memories of the Ice Storm of '91 (trapped in a freezing house for almost three days, out of school for a full week), I feel like it won't be the same to talk about Winter Storm Izanagi or whatever.

[dogstar]

The Snowpocolypse was AWESOME and now that I have a cold-weather dog, I want another one. :P Get on that, right? ;P

[ymfaery]

Maybe they first heard the name on He-Man and found out the origins later? :D

[twincityhacker]

I cannot wait for Storm Gandolf. CANNOT WAIT.