Storm Names

jonski

I hear people giving this current stormy weather a name ( Christine ) , do these storms get named ? . I don't remember any other years where they were named other than the great storm of ( insert year here ) .

maquiladora

Free University of Berlin names all areas of low and high pressure in Europe since the 1950's. It's just something the media has started to latch onto recently because it sounds more dramatic when there is a name, thats all.

Tenger

Having been in NYC and Boston a couple of days ago I can definitely relate to the drama element. News outlet were really pushing Hercules. Almost giving it a personality.

DOCARCH

maquiladora wrote: »

Free University of Berlin names all areas of low and high pressure in Europe since the 1950's.

...and charge for it. AFAIK, an area of high pressure costs more to name than a low pressure/storm system.

maquiladora

Tenger wrote: »

Having been in NYC and Boston a couple of days ago I can definitely relate to the drama element. News outlet were really pushing Hercules. Almost giving it a personality.

The winter storm names in the US are a recent invention by The Weather Channel over there.

maquiladora

DOCARCH wrote: »

...and charge for it. AFAIK, an area of high pressure costs more to name than a low pressure/storm system.

Thats just a more recent thing. Its a way of generating funding for the students by giving the people who donate a moment of "fame".

vicwatson

" Free University of Berlin names all areas of low and high pressure in Europe since the 1950's. It's just something the media has started to latch onto recently because it sounds more dramatic when there is a name, thats all."

Not according to The Irish Independent -

"TV3 weatherman Deric Hartigan first coined the name of the storm"

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/storm-christine-en-route-to-ireland-29887508.html

Red Nissan

vicwatson wrote: »

" Not according to The Irish Independent -

"TV3 weatherman Deric Hartigan first coined the name of the storm"l

I'd say they are in error, or rather, that Deric was the first weather man to pick up on the storm's name [rather than actually name it].

vicwatson

But the Indo are still using "Christine" yet the map above is showing the storm name as "Christina" ?

Iancar29

Yeah whatever about those storms , i got a proper CYCLONE named after me!!


http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/20624862/cyclone-warning-for-tonga-cancelled/

up for anything

I'm a bit disappointed that my tropical storm last year didn't have the decency to turn into a hurricane.