Richard B the EMT Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 In the musical "Paint Your Wagon", there's a song mentioning there's a name for wind, rain and fire. Most know the Hurricane/Tropical Storm that hit my area was called "Super Storm Sandy". Now, as a blizzard approaches the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut "Tri-State" area, I'm suddenly hearing the storm being called "Nemo". Nemo was a Clownfish in a Disney cartoon, another Nemo was the captain of the submarine Nautilis in Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea". 1) When did the infamous "they" start naming winter storms? 2) Presuming they named winter storms alphabetically, as they do Hurricanes and Typhoons, what happened to the names from "A" to "M"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paramedicmike Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 This is a Weather Channel thing and the National Weather Service is neither on board with this nor agrees with the practice. If I remember correctly the NWS has even asked the Weather Channel to knock it off. Yes. They started with A names and proceed through the alphabet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scubanurse Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Nemo also means "no one" in latin... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arctickat Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 And here I thought it stood for North East Meteorological Occurrence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EMT City Administrator Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Chat room is open if anyone wants to chat during the blizzard! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
island emt Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 A little over a foot of fluffy powder so far today, with the real beef of the storm expected to arrive here in the next 4 hours and rage all night & into tomorrow afternoon. Been sitting right at 10 degrees F all day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arctickat Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 (edited) I offered to send this to Boston. Their response was rather non-commital....I don't think they believed I was serious. Actually, their comment was "Thanks, we could probably use it!" but this was yesterday and likely difficult to arrange shipping. Edited February 8, 2013 by Arctickat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
island emt Posted February 9, 2013 Share Posted February 9, 2013 If you jump on it right now you could probably get here by mid April trevor. Just in time for the lobsters to start running. :-} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arctickat Posted February 9, 2013 Share Posted February 9, 2013 errr, of what year? Something tells me there won't be a lot of snow by then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ERDoc Posted February 9, 2013 Share Posted February 9, 2013 So first we see have Sandy, now Nemo. In about a week we will have 2012 DA14. I think with the northeast's luck, it will make ground contact over there somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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