Why can't a snowstorm just be a snowstorm? It has to have a name.

[marmar]

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I blame the Weather Channel.

[hrmjustin]

1. money.

[belzabubba333]

2. cause it worked so well during hurricane season

[Baclava]

8. 100% correct - they learned viewership goes up with disaster porn hype - so 'Lets Name snowstorms!'

so now we get Jimbo out there in a parka, standing in a parking lot in 3 inches of snow while cars spit dirty slush at his feet

meanwhile, daily "weather" is too boring to provide 24/7 with celebrity anchors now, thus garbage show reruns when no disaster looms

I tune in to the 'other' weather channel now, or just use my phone's Doppler radar map for my area, anybody can read a local map and see which way a storm is blowin

[marym625]

3. Cuz it's fun?

Next, rainstorms will start being named.

But here's a new word to go with the weather

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017240248

[femmocrat]

4. This one is a "Blockbuster Blizzard" -- no kidding.

And why is every snow storm a blizzard and every blizzard is "the storm of the century"?

TV weather = overly dramatic!

[belzabubba333]

9. TV weather = overly dramatic!= better ratings

[HereSince1628]

5. The Great N'easter of '15 just doesn't have brand appeal but if they do this

they should be using names like Jokul and Ullr or Narrsuk and Sila...

[LiberalElite]

6. That's why I

no longer watch TWC - That stupid winter storm naming crap, plus the end-of-the-world bombast during their conflict with (I think) DISH TV. When Big weatherperson star Jim Cantore did a WTC commercial claiming that people could die if they couldn't get TWC on DISH I finally stopped watching for good. Maybe TWC was the one-and-only 24 hr weather channel in the 1980s but there are so many other ways to get the forecast now. They're no longer the only game in town.

[SummerSnow]

7. They should name the next storm summersnow, that'll be cool right?

[Populist_Prole]

10. I so inured by it all I don't even pay attention to the media's weather reporting

it's all such bullshit; but I must rant now.

"Arctic blast" this, "Polar vortex" that. "El Nino" was beat to death. "Storm of the ( month/season/year/decade/century )", "Record breaking" heat/cold. Yeah, record breaking....for that particular calendar day. There's shitloads of calendar days.

Where I live we average about 45 inches of rain per year, always have; but we can't have 3 or 4 days without rain without worry worts wringing their hands about drought, or about how "we're an inch below normal rainfall for the month" blah blah blah. Then when it does rain, there's flood hysteria.

Nobody can just take the good and enjoy it, or the bad in stride. Newsflash: It's cold in January and hot in July. A nice 53 degree sunny day in January ( like it is here today ) is no cause for alarm, nor is a deliciously cool ( and rare ) day in the mid 70's day in late august. Enjoy them; stop playing devil's advocate. A coworker fretted last week during a series of high 50's-low 60's days: "Yeah, but it's gonna' be cold all next week". "No! It's just not going to be unusually warm...it's freakin' January!"

Rant over.........

[FLPanhandle]

11. Ratings

No other reason.