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Old 14-03-2022, 19:07   #16
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Re: ‘Storm Ulmer’ and 'Bombogenesis'

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It still bothers me that The Weather Channel (and all the other outlets they have bought up, contract with or follow their lead) are naming every little storm these days.

Before you say it, yes, I know. I need to get over it.

It seems it won't be long before the media will be reporting dramatically on "foggy day Fred" or "Breeze Betty." For the record, the US National Weather Service has specific guidelines for what gets named, and they're opposed to this sensationalism.

As for storms as big as the one in the OP, they get named by consensus. Hence the aforementioned "Great Blizzard of 1889." Around here if you say "Blizzard of '78" everyone knows what you mean. There are some old timers who still talk about one from '29 or some such. We don't need media outlets spinning up drama for storms which don't reach that threshold.

Bringing this rant back to cruising, most of us have insurance policies which specify "named storms." Hopefully somewhere in the fine print they define that as "real" named storms and not those hyped by the Weather Channel.
I will climb up on your soapbox with you!
It really irritates me when the weather channel names every stupid raindrop. I have to keep reminding myself that they are not really in the business of weather forecasting, but in the business of makeing money, and the more listeners/viewers that they attract the more ads they sell. It’s all about marketing.
I remember a 1950 snow in West Virginia that we simply called the blizzard of 1950. The name worked very well and everyone knew what you were talking about then and still do now. And if the weather channel had been around then and named it Bertha, I would probably not remember the storm or when it happened.
OK. I have not stepped down off my soapbox.

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Old 15-03-2022, 14:50   #17
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Re: ‘Storm Ulmer’ and 'Bombogenesis'

So Gord, what I want to know is what's the weather going to be like this coming June, in the long island sound and offshore from there to bermuda???
And feel free to name any heavy weather that you want...thnks
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So Gord, what I want to know is what's the weather going to be like ...
I'm not a meaty-urologist*.


* "Meaty-urologist": an overweight penis doctor, that can also tell you the weather forecast.
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I'm not a meaty-urologist*.


* "Meaty-urologist": an overweight penis doctor, that can also tell you the weather forecast.
Which aspect of the definition does not apply Gord?
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Re: ‘Storm Ulmer’ and 'Bombogenesis'

I obviously got the wrong degree in college, Gord....so I could have been on TV all this time, in a white coat, letting you know how many millions of Americans will be under a weather watch!
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Which aspect of the definition does not apply Gord?
I've got the pot belly, but not the MD, nor the forecast.
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Old 16-03-2022, 08:58   #22
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Gord, you'll float alot better with the pot belly than without if your pfd fails.
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