Named storm Andrea May 2019

[boatman61]

Originally Posted by CaptTom

What about the Weather Channel (and all the weather-related sites and organizations they've bought up) naming every snowstorm, for dramatic effect? And greedy news outlets fanning the flames of hysteria by following that convention.

Pretty soon we'll be hearing about "rain storm Sally" and "fog bank Bob."

So called potential Disasters and dangers boost ratings..
Simple as that.

[Bean Counter]

It does seem a bit like crying wolf.

[AllenRbrts]

Originally Posted by CaptTom

What about the Weather Channel (and all the weather-related sites and organizations they've bought up) naming every snowstorm, for dramatic effect? And greedy news outlets fanning the flames of hysteria by following that convention.

Pretty soon we'll be hearing about "rain storm Sally" and "fog bank Bob."

This particular thread was about tropical storms and some implied that the standard had changed. That is incorrect, the standard hasn’t changed. Yes the weather channel started routinely naming winter storms 7 years ago, but the national weather service has ignored that.

[LeeV]

Originally Posted by boatman61

Its a media/politico thing..
They do like ramping up things these days.. takes the lesser beings minds off the more serious issues.

Hey! I resemble that remark! ;-)

[GordMay]

I don't believe any of it!

Do you know anybody from Bielefeld?
Have you ever been to Bielefeld?
Do you know anybody who has ever been to Bielefeld?
If the answers to those three questions were all “no” – as is extraordinarily likely – I’ll spare you a Google.
Bielefeld is a city in north-western Germany, with a population of about 323,000. It’s in the state of North-Rhine-Westphalia, and is the 18th largest city in Germany, with a large university and hospital, a historic castle, and a fairly typically Germanic-looking church.
Or at least that’s what they want you to think. The evil, conniving, manipulating, Machiavellian elites of the Illuminati.
Because the truth – the shocking truth, the red-pill MSM-defying truth – is that Bielefeld doesn’t exist.
It is in fact a mirage cooked up by those who would wish to keep us – the people – shackled up in our chains. An elaborate exercise in mass psychological and evidential fabrication and manipulation that serves as an experiment into the limits of control that the mighty can exert over the masses.
You’re Googling it now, aren’t you?
Those maps? Doctored. Photographs? Videos? CGI.
And if you’re one of the few people who believes they’ve been to Bielefeld – congratulations. You’ve been selected to be subjected to some very nifty hypnosis, or a ground-breaking psychosomatic drug administered discreetly in gas form. Forget Hillary’s emails, this – THIS – is the exposé of the century.

[wcapital]

Originally Posted by Snore

WINNER! In reality, a good wintertime cold front has sustained winds over 35mph and can gust to 80. By giving more storms names, the insurance companies will save money through higher deductibles.

Is it reasonable xpect the NWS to start naming all kinds of storms?

They started with the snowstorms a while ago....what a joke! Must have been the lobbying effort by The Weather Channel - to sell more ads & make more jobs for talking heads showing off their LL Bean logo togs.

In the Colorado mountains we have a family name for these storms: "Winter"!

I wonder how long before auto insurance companies start writing higher deductibles and exclusions for accidents during named winter storms......

[thruska]

Originally Posted by Snore

WINNER! In reality, a good wintertime cold front has sustained winds over 35mph and can gust to 80. By giving more storms names, the insurance companies will save money through higher deductibles.

Is it reasonable xpect the NWS to start naming all kinds of storms?

The media grabs anything they can tag as gloom n doom .
And the legal extortion companies ( insurance) will grab anything that they feel allows them to extort even more.
Greedy sobs!

[bstreep]

Storm naming: Winter Storms are named by ... THE WEATHER CHANNEL. After getting the carp beat out of us with Hurricane Harvey, I became suspicious that the NHC was becoming overly dramatic in their storm categorizing. So, I started documenting it. Sure enough... They just plain lied. Storms were 1 or 2 categories above what the data said they were. I was watching and downloading data from all of their sources. They were using wind GUSTS, not SUSTAINED wind for their categories. Even though they SAY they don't.



It's my opinion, and only an opinion, that the NHC folks are wanting a second career at TWC. So, they are more than a bit friendly with them.


The secondary effects are that we (boat owners) might get screwed with a named storm declaration that might not be real, but still triggers items in our insurance. It also means that we are getting, alleged, "stronger storms", if you get my drift...



Again, just my opinion, but I did a LOT of research on this. They are lying to us.

[tarian]

Well over here on the other side of the pond Ireland and the UK started naming storms that hit a certain wind speed and depression, the reasononing behind it and I know you all like a conspiracy theory , but the reality was that by naming storms that could cause flooding and damage would Make the Public take more notice and maybe prepare a little better
In the Carabiean many houses are pretty poorly built and flooding is an issue even on a small scale depression, so no one panic were not under attack for the Russians yet

[GordMay]

Experience shows that the use of short, distinctive names in written as well as spoken communications is quicker and less subject to error than the older, more cumbersome latitude-longitude identification methods. These advantages are especially important in exchanging detailed storm information between hundreds of widely scattered stations, coastal bases, and ships at sea.
The use of easily remembered names greatly reduces confusion when two or more tropical storms occur at the same time. For example, one hurricane can be moving slowly westward in the Gulf of Mexico, while at exactly the same time another hurricane can be moving rapidly northward along the Atlantic coast. In the past, confusion and false rumors have arisen when storm advisories broadcast from radio stations were mistaken for warnings concerning an entirely different storm located hundreds of miles away.

Since 1953, Atlantic tropical storms have been named, once they produce sustained maximum wind speeds of more than 33 knots (a Tropical Depression).

[boatman61]

Originally Posted by GordMay

I don't believe any of it!

Do you know anybody from Bielefeld?
Have you ever been to Bielefeld?
Do you know anybody who has ever been to Bielefeld?
If the answers to those three questions were all “no” – as is extraordinarily likely – I’ll spare you a Google.
Bielefeld is a city in north-western Germany, with a population of about 323,000. It’s in the state of North-Rhine-Westphalia, and is the 18th largest city in Germany, with a large university and hospital, a historic castle, and a fairly typically Germanic-looking church.
Or at least that’s what they want you to think. The evil, conniving, manipulating, Machiavellian elites of the Illuminati.
Because the truth – the shocking truth, the red-pill MSM-defying truth – is that Bielefeld doesn’t exist.
It is in fact a mirage cooked up by those who would wish to keep us – the people – shackled up in our chains. An elaborate exercise in mass psychological and evidential fabrication and manipulation that serves as an experiment into the limits of control that the mighty can exert over the masses.
You’re Googling it now, aren’t you?
Those maps? Doctored. Photographs? Videos? CGI.
And if you’re one of the few people who believes they’ve been to Bielefeld – congratulations. You’ve been selected to be subjected to some very nifty hypnosis, or a ground-breaking psychosomatic drug administered discreetly in gas form. Forget Hillary’s emails, this – THIS – is the exposé of the century.

Sounds like the BS put out by curry houses with their last scam.. Balti's.. a tradirional dish from Baltistan.
All it is is a standard curry with twice the sauce and 2/3rd the meat in the standard.. the public sucked it up.
Balti means Bucket in both Urdu and Hindi..

[Argyle38]

Originally Posted by GordMay

Since 1953, Atlantic tropical storms have been named, once they produce sustained maximum wind speeds of more than 33 knots (a Tropical Depression).

That answers the first question. Thanks!

The 2nd question is how often since '53 has a force 8 'storm' been named before June 1st?

[AllenRbrts]

Originally Posted by Argyle38

That answers the first question. Thanks!

The 2nd question is how often since '53 has a force 8 'storm' been named before June 1st?

Not sure I see a pattern.

[Montanan]

Given the storms modest status, perhaps it name should be andrea, all lower case and small font, i.e., hardly worth mentioning.

Storms could then become named in progression of their intensity.

First by capitalizing the first letter.

Andrea.

Then progressively as to font size.

Andrea.

Andrea.

Andrea.

Then progressing towards all caps. As now your getting serious here, kind of like using all caps in a text message.

ANDREA.

And then progressing in font size with all caps and perhaps Bolding and adding explanation mark(s). The number of explanations marks designating the category of hurricane / cyclone / typhoon.

ANDREA.

ANDREA.


ANDREA!!!!!

UNTIL the name is screamed like Rocky yelling ADRIAN. ADRIAN. ADRIAN.

[RaymondR]

Originally Posted by CaptTom

What about the Weather Channel (and all the weather-related sites and organizations they've bought up) naming every snowstorm, for dramatic effect? And greedy news outlets fanning the flames of hysteria by following that convention.

Pretty soon we'll be hearing about "rain storm Sally" and "fog bank Bob."

The important matter would appear to be which naming your insurer recognizes, that by non official bodies or that by the national meteorological bureau.