When did they start naming winter storms?

[AUFred]

This is the first time I noticed it.

 

[griz bear]

the weather channel started naming storms last winter

 

[porterjack]

i bet they have girlie names

 

[AUFred]

I think they have been both male & female. This is the first year I noticed.

 

[Aries]

First year I noticed it too.

 

[!]

2011... but it really took off in 2012-2013 due to the weather channel.... > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_storm_naming

 

[Dopie]

When you were born.

 

[Dopie]

This is the first time I noticed it.

This isn't the first time I noticed your strange username.

 

[The Man]

I could understnad it if we had a major storm..say a one in one hundred years on the grand schema.

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[griz bear]

will they be naming nice days too

 

[KingKong]

lol same here...didn't really notice it before but then again, didn't have as many. In some states seems to be a weekly deal now.

 

[The Man]

The flood of 93...is a good name for the flood of 93
The great snow of "insert your year here" should suffice.
You know its snow and when it happened. ...much more informative and collective for the brain.

Who would want to associate a culture of names with something bad that happened due to mother nature?

 

[AUFred]

I blame all this on global warming.

 

[MMMMatilde]

So strange. Are they bad storms? Or just so so?

We haven't had any of that here. Just naming cyclones. If anything they would have 'Heat Wave Martha' or 'Flood Fred' for Australia

 

[griz bear]

if there's global warming why did you have snow this winter Fred ?

 

[AUFred]

So strange. Are they bad storms? Or just so so?

We haven't had any of that here. Just naming cyclones. If anything they would have 'Heat Wave Martha' or 'Flood Fred' for Australia

They have been fairly strong storms.

if there's global warming why did you have snow this winter Fred ?[/QUOTE}

I was being sarcastic. Those who believe in global warming are now calling it climate change.

 

[griz bear]

ok, good to know.