Weather Channel's Winter Storm Name List

General Name Discussion
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With the new nor’easter sitting over NYC, Weather [name]Channel[/name] just released a list of the names it plans to give to winter storms this year. (Side note: when did they start giving names to winter storms in the NE?). Anyway, list is pretty cool.

[name]Athena[/name] (the current one)
[name]Brutus[/name]
[name]Caesar[/name]
Drako
Euclid
Freyr
[name]Gandolf[/name]
[name]Helen[/name]
[name]Iago[/name]
[name]Jove[/name]
Khan
[name]Luna[/name]
[name]Magnus[/name]
[name]Nemo[/name]
Orko
[name]Plato[/name]
(No Q)
[name]Rocky[/name]
[name]Saturn[/name]
Triton
Ukko
[name]Virgil[/name]
[name]Walda[/name]
[name]Xerxes[/name]
Yogi
[name]Zeus[/name]

http://www.weather.com/news/weather-winter/naming-the-noreaster-20121106

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Actually, here’s why and when they started naming winter storms. JK. http://www.weather.com/news/why-we-name-winter-storms-20121001

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Wow. There’s a lot of Greek and [name]Roman[/name] names there. And Yogi??

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Thanks for posting the list – I didn’t see it yet! We wrote something for the Weather [name]Channel[/name] on the name [name]Sandy[/name] and hope to contribute the Nameberry view on the names.

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Whoa, there are some seriously awesome names on this list! [name]Xerxes[/name], Triton, [name]Zeus[/name], Khan and [name]Brutus[/name] sound like EPIC snowstorms! Yogi, [name]Iago[/name] and [name]Virgil[/name] just sound really really cold and icey. [name]Luna[/name] and [name]Nemo[/name] however, sound really cosy. Interesting! Thanks for posting the list!

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They seem to be choosing very unusual names for the storms.

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As a [name]Lord[/name] of the Rings fan, I am surprised to see [name]Gandolf[/name] on the list! Maybe since the Hobbit movie is coming out they got inspiration from the lotr chatter?