Winter storms are not named. The Weather Channel assigns names to winter storms as part of a social media marketing campaign. When you mention "Juno," you're participating in the proliferation of Big Weather. Think before you hashtag.
The only acceptable names for this storm are "Blizzard of 2015, "Thanks Obama," and "UGH."
I miss
Weatherdude, because he at least reassured me that the historically important storms were largely constructed by the media and often didn't match the best quantitative meteorological models.
But there's a Blizzzzard coming!!!
The storm of 1978 in which I had to go to a convention in NYC took me 12 hours to get from Cleveland via several hours on the Philadelphia tarmac. Would have been nicer to go somewhere else.
The storm of 1993 which featured flooding on the New England coast wasn't as bad as was the 2010 storm. And 2013 had a lot of snow, but frankly it didn't seem like all that much.
I remember a lot of snow - more shoveling as I've gotten older, and FoxNews refers to this storm as "potentially historic" misunderstanding that everything is actually historic.
Travel nightmare: Northeast Corridor braces for 'potentially historic' snowstorm
Millions in the Northeast are stocking up and hunkering down for Winter Storm Juno, a potentially crippling blizzard. But before Juno's parent low pressure system even reached the Atlantic coast, many began wondering aloud: Will Winter Storm Juno be historic?
"Historic" is not a precisely defined term, but generally meteorologists reserve it for weather events of exceptional strength or magnitude. A hallmark of such events is their ability to break all-time records. For instance, Winter Storm Nemo broke the all-time 24-hour snowfall record for the entire state of Connecticut when it dumped 36 inches of snow near Ansonia on Feb. 8-9, 2013.
If there are "Weather Centers", are there "Weather Peripheries".
Weather emergencies are interesting problems in de facto infrastructure issues where better public works/utility planning would put power lines below ground - instead there will be downed power lines - extra income for subcontracted powerline crews and a gallon of kerosene cost me as much as a fine wine.
Wed Jan 28, 2015 at 9:43 AM PT: http://www.cbsnews.com/...