"I saw the comments on John’s blog yesterday where someone asked when we started naming storms (Nemo, etc.). The next commenter posted that “we” didn’t, it is just the Weather Channel. I just saw on Maggie’s Farm where they said, “Defcon 7 storm of massive doom…”. I’m glad to see I am not alone in thinking TWC is being rather ridiculous in their attempt to name storms other than hurricanes, which are named by some official agency somewhere. This all seemed to start when TWC began using the term “TORCON”, short for Tornado Condition, to issue a numerical prediction of the chance of a tornado occurring in a certain area. Of course, it must be spoken only with a serious look on your face and in a deep voice. Last night I saw they are now using “STORMCON” which I assume is the same for storms.
In this vein, I have decided here at the house, after I eat cabbage, ***
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Feb 08 2013, 10:19 AM
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