The Weather Channel Releases 2014-15 Winter Storm Names, And Theyre Terrible The Weather Channel is continuing its practice of unilaterally naming winter storms, which it began doing two winters ago. The list of storm names for the upcoming winter came out on Wednesday, and theyre awful Naming any type of storm without the endorsement of the National Weather Service — which does not name anything other than tropical storms and hurricanes — is controversial within the meteorological community See also: 11 Photos of Icelands Bardarbunga Volcano Erupting That Are Just Unreal The Weather Channel (TWC) clearly made the decision to do this in order to harness the power of social media and dominate the Twitter hashtag wars — and judging by last winter, it worked. Tom Niziol, the networks winter-storm expert, has said that the naming practice was started to help people focus on the threats these storms pose, given evidence showing that when they have names, people prepare for them more Read more... More about Weather Channel, Us World, Us, Winter Storm, and Extreme Weather #socialmedia
Posted on: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 15:41:18 +0000
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