On Tuesday, October 2, 2012 5:07:27 PM UTC-4, Wesley McGee wrote: > > http://www.weather.com/news/winter-storm-names-20121001 > > From a list of ancient gods and goddesses, storybook characters, people > mentioned in their children's school textbooks, subway lines, random words > plucked blindly from the dictionary, and various persons hated by employees > at TWC, they have devised a list of names to give to winter storms (aka > snow hurricanes). > > Why? I have no clue whatsoever, so I will just go to the standby: for > ratings. > > The NBC station in Philadelphia tried this about 10 years ago. The approach was so laughable that it was dropped after one season, if not earlier. -Tim
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