BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018

Subject: Benji is turning into a nor'easter
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Dec 17 - 02:48 PM

Well, the Weather Terrorists are at it again.

A chart of names has been made for this winter season
by the mass-media weatherpeoples who do this thing.
I took no notice whatever of Aiden.

But Benji took form on the US Mexico border,
just where "Hang-the-DeeJay" wants to build a wall;
and a swath of snow and ice has been laid down, from west to east,
across the southern US.

Now Benji is supposed to come up the Atlantic seaboard
and drop snow on the megalopolis-es there.

It occurred to me that there was no need to have a BS thread
for every winter storm, named or otherwise, this winter --
we could just have one ongoing thread for all of the monsters,
whether they get names or not.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Dec 17 - 05:21 PM

Aiden was a Greater Metro Denver (CO) event,
which was why it escaped my notice in Massachusetts.

The other funny thing about the mass-weather-media names
is that they don't alternate genders, the way the hurricane names do.

If we get stormed on enough this winter,
the name Uma is on the winter storm name list.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 08 Dec 17 - 06:03 PM

the Australian meteorologist who started naming storms way back in the 1890s In the 1890s the English-born meteorologist Clement Wragge, who migrated to Australia in 1883, began naming storm events using letters of the Greek alphabet, characters from Greek mythology or girl?s names from the Pacific Islands. At times Wragge was employed as an government meteorologist but often argued with officials over what his functions should be. To get back at them he began using the names of politicians for storms.

The article does not mention his nickname - Inclement Wragge.

How Australia's first weather chart predicted a hunger for forecasts neither does this one tho it mentions he was known for his "mop of flaming red hair and explosive temper to match".

but his entry in the Australian Dictionary of Biography does!

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 08 Dec 17 - 06:13 PM

There has been a sort of Neil Diamond thread going on over on Facebook: not-so-sweet Caroline, but it might be a while till we get to Crackling Rosie!

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Dec 17 - 06:40 PM

Oprah!

Uma!

Uma!

Oprah!

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Dec 17 - 12:01 PM

Benji is here, all right.

At least, the wind is moderate,
and the other b-word -- blizzard --
does NOT describe the storm here.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Dec 17 - 04:15 PM

Benji's blessing is the wet heavy kind of snow
that the Weather Channel man (Jim Cantore?)
calls "white mud."

Just finished scraping some off the parked car.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: gnu
Date: 09 Dec 17 - 09:28 PM

Our first now is now underway. The TV and radio weather terrorists are agog with warnings. They haven't named it but I have done so. I call it "PFFFF! You call that a storm? Where did you grow up?"

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Dec 17 - 12:46 PM

Brilliant blue sky over head, and bright sunshine.
The only thing in the sky is a trail of airplane, er, whatever airplanes leave in their wake.
This heavy wet snow is a bugger to shovel.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Dec 17 - 12:12 PM

Next name on the list is Chloe.

Remember that Spike Jones single called "Chloe"?

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Dec 17 - 03:58 PM

The Winter Terrorists at the Weather Channel
are now promoting, erm, I mean, warning about Winter Storm Chloe.

The snow belt which includes the Great Lakes
is in Chloe's sights.

Then Chloe moves to the Appalachian Mountains in their northern stretch,
in New York and Pennsylvania.

At this moment, on those enhanced maps with Doppler radar
available to illiterate civilians like me,
Chloe has swallowed Lower Michigan and is making herself known in Upper Michigan as well.
And Chicago is getting it.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Dec 17 - 06:31 PM

I hear that Chloe had an impact on Rhode Island, near the airport;
but all that came to Massachusetts was that bitter wind,
which has since slowed down, thank goodness.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 14 Dec 17 - 08:38 PM

Another problem in RI is that some school buses were on the road picking up students when the roads got bad, arriving at schools late and being even later to pick up children waiting for the next run. Most buses do at least three runs--high school, middle school, and elementary. Some even make two runs to a school: a long inbound run picking up children living farther away, then a short run picking up children living closer. (The process is reversed at dismissal.) A delay during any run results in a delay in the rest of the runs with children waiting in the cold, wind, and snow. There wasn't a lot of snowfall, but the wind blowing the snow made visibility difficult.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Dec 17 - 11:42 AM

The next named winter storm -- pause for effect   --

will be DYLAN.

Is a hard rain gonna fall?

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Dec 17 - 01:37 PM

Hah, I thought it was just a joke . . .

so what has Dylan brought southern New England?
Freezing rain!

It's supposed to warm up to just above freezing,
at least this far south,
so that the ice melts.

(me and my big mouth)

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Dec 17 - 01:08 PM

The ice and freezing rain from Winter Storm Dylan
made surfaces treacherous.

Now comes winter storm Ethan.
My area might be on the line between rain and snow/ice again,
so slippery stuff again.
But north of here it will certainly be
a snowy white Christmas.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Dec 17 - 09:48 AM

Winter Storm Ethan has brought a white Christmas to the greater Boston metro area.
The sky is low and dim. The snowplows are out in force.
I don't know how many inches of snow have fallen.

It's just awfully dim and dark. Merry?

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 28 Dec 17 - 07:48 PM

Winter Storm Frankie has now been made official.

The Black Hills will be white with snow,
but first it sounds like Frankie will be
blowing by Rapparee's neck of the woods.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Dec 17 - 03:01 PM

And the next named winter storm is listed as Grayson.

Oddly enough there was a Winter Storm Grayson
as recently as 2013.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Dec 17 - 12:25 PM

Winter Storm Frankie is in shreds now;
but some of the shreds will bring snow
to Long Island Sound and the shoreline thereabouts.

The unusual cold
is causing some cancellations, on the Atlantic coast,
of the New Year's Day annual Polar Bear plunges
by scantily dressed males into the ocean water.
No one wants anybody to die of their dip into the water.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 30 Dec 17 - 01:03 PM

We're about to be hit by Dylan - as if he hadn't done enough damage to folk song
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 30 Dec 17 - 03:14 PM

SW Scotland will be Blowin' in the Wind by early tomorrow.
Hogmanay celebrations in Edinburgh cancelled twice in the past because of high winds: the organisers this year will be hoping they have God on their side!

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 31 Dec 17 - 04:14 AM

'This is the story of Hurricane'.....

Now that's something to look forward to!

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: Mr Red
Date: 31 Dec 17 - 05:44 AM

I thought the Irish had the job of naming the most recent storm. Even the naming of storms causes a political storm!

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 31 Dec 17 - 07:03 AM

Our part of the world is a case of "Lord' Didn't it Rain", I'm afraid
My late friend, Tom Munnelly, was a Dub whose work as a folk song collector cause him to move to this town in West Clare
He immortally summed up our local weather when he said "It's the first time I ever saw sixty-mile-an-hour fog" - a wonderful description of the common combination of heavy sea mists driven by regular high wings
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Jan 18 - 06:35 PM

Boston, Massachusetts has a big ol' target sign on it,
in terms of
Winter Storm Grayson.

This storm is cranking up in the ocean off of Florida and the Carolinas,
which are going to get, erm, stormed on.

As Grayson rolls north up the Atlantic coast,
it may miss the other megalopolis concentrations of cities,
but it will definitely wallop Boston.

They're trotting out the meteorological term
BOMBOGENESIS -- something that bombastic merits caps, it seems to me.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Jan 18 - 06:48 PM

We've been battered by an Atlantic storm called Eleanor in Cornwall today. Unfortunately, the big onshore blow coincided with high spring tides so we've had all sorts of mayhem on the coast today. No-one hurt as far as I know. I've had heavy clay plant pots blown all over my garden and a thick layer of salt all over my car and windows. I also had a cowl blown off my chimney. That'll cost me. No granddaughter of mine will ever be allowed to be called Eleanor!

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Jan 18 - 07:03 PM

Sheesh, keeping all these names straight.
Steve, I'm certain your report is accurate, not questioning it at all.

It's just that "Ethan" not "Eleanor" was the name of the winter storm that visited North America's east coast around Christmas time, and we still have snow on the ground/curbs/parking lots from that one.

Now dear little bombastic "Grayson" is supposed to show up in the morning
and drop snow at the rate of one or two inches PER HOUR ...
oh, the humanity ...
and high winds to blow it all about as well.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Jan 18 - 08:27 PM

In thirty years living here, we've had just the one severe snowfall. Mrs Steve was booked on a course that day, thirty miles away. I'd heard the apocalyptic forecast and told her not to go, but, as the snow had yet to start falling, she ignored me. She got stranded and had to get a bed and breakfast in a remote village (which had no phone signal - great), leaving our precious car stuck in a drift on a one-in-six hill. I was less than well pleased. As it happens, the local authority which had sent her on the course paid the B&B bill. After that, she doesn't go anywhere any more unless she takes a sachet of shower gel and spare bra and knickers. Life is such a learning curve.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Jan 18 - 08:29 PM

One-in-six --
is that something called "camber"?

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Jan 18 - 08:30 PM

It's just a very steep hill!

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Jan 18 - 09:07 AM

Well, if the reports so far are accurate,
then it may be a while before Mudcatters in the southeastern US
check in to tell us how they survived,
because Winter Storm Grayson seems to have
made an awful mess.
It may be a while before things are cleaned up enough
for our compadres to post.   

In the Greater Metro Boston area,
the storm is just now settling in but not settling down.
My parked car has no indoors to go to.
So my windshield wipers are sticking straight out,
and the car is in the parking space with
the rear end in, and the front end pointing out.

The plows, salt and sand, and whatever-else trucks and jeeps
are in action. They will have a full day.
And the tow-truck people will profit from the misfortunes of others.
The rest of us have to hunker down for a while
and stay warm, dry, fed, and so on.
Please do wish us well.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Jan 18 - 02:45 PM

This storm is being compared to Hurricane Sandy.

Is there such a thing as
a winter-cane?

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 04 Jan 18 - 02:51 PM

Perhaps it's time we oiks were given the chance to name our own storms
From the amount of damage they are doing, Mad Maggie seems apposite fro us Brits
Wouldn't dream of choosing for our cousins across the pond, but Donald the Destroyer has a niche ring to it
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Jan 18 - 04:16 PM

Weather terrorists, does that term reflect a knowledge of weather modification?
I am leaning toward an ongoing polar vortex that sweeps south as an extreme reaction to global warming. Follow the plunge of the winter Vortex this decade and you will see this deadly pattern descend south at all points of the northern latitudes.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Jan 18 - 04:46 PM

As for "Winter Terrorists",
better ask Gnu what it means,
because I stole the term from one of his posts.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Jan 18 - 12:20 PM

Greetings from a spot almost exactly halfway in between
Providence, Rhode Island, and Boston, Massachusetts,
as the proverbial crow flies.

The sun is shining,
the sky is cloudless blinding blue,
and a stiff icy wind is blowing flags and tree branches about.
And what is really blinding is the
I-don't-know-how-many-bleeping-inches of snow at ground level,
reflecting all that sunshine.

SNOW is a four-letter word in every sense of the word just now.

Thankfully the snow where I am/was
is mostly light powdery stuff.
Even the fluffy powder is a challenge
when the temperatures drop well below freezing, as they have done,
because that over-a-foot-of fluffy powder condenses into solid snow blocks.
The snowplowers have been up against this,
before, during, and long long after the storm itself. Ugh, Grayson.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Jan 18 - 04:37 PM

"Hunter" is the name reserved
for the winter storm which follows, in due course,
Winter Storm Grayson.

I could wish that the name
did not sound so predatory as to seem threatening,
while many of us are still adjusting
to the blows of that earlier storm.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Jan 18 - 11:52 AM

And Winter Storm Hunter is now a story.
Today it's in the midsection of the continent.
What it does will depend on temperatures.

Southern New England is above freezing for the first time since, when, Christmas?

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Jan 18 - 11:00 AM

Winter Storm Hunter is headed for southeastern Canada, according to the Weather channel (which named the storm I believe).

The Great Lakes areas have been in Hunter's path.

The northeastern US will feel less from the storm itself
than it will feel the very cold temperatures
that arrive in the storm's wake.

Time to pull out the layered clothes and cold-weather gear
from the sub-freezing temps we had around New Year's Day.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Jan 18 - 12:16 PM

In answer to the obvious question:   

Inga Jaxon Kalami   Liam Mateo    Noah   Oliver   Polly   

Quinn Riley   Skylar    Toby   Uma   Violet   

Wilbur   Xanto    Yvonne   Zoey   



(not my idea)

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Jan 18 - 11:24 AM

It looks as though Winter Storm Inga
paid a visit to Acme's part of the world last night.

For a winter storm,
Inga is a long ways south.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Jan 18 - 06:23 PM

Inga is sounding like a split personality.
Part of her is wreaking havoc in the southern US.

Her northern portion is crunching across the Berkshires
in western Massachusetts,
and should reach Boston around midnight;
the snow she dumps on us is supposed to be sloppy heavy wet stuff.
Oh, joy.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Jan 18 - 03:48 PM

Many auto drivers did not find Inga a laughing matter today,
as their morning commutes were worse than usual.   

But compared to the blizzards of recent memory,
Inga is a damp -- VERY damp -- squib.
The snow is indeed the heavy wet stuff;
the temperature is at or above freezing;
and there is NO WIND!

School remained in session,
the postmen went on delivering mail,
and the plows and salt trucks did yeoman's work.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Jan 18 - 01:11 PM

Winter Storm Jaxon is a thing, now.
This looks like a lot of wind, cold wind.

My Northeast corner of the lower 48
is thawing enough that when the storm gets here
it won't have really cold air to work with.

But between then and now, some places are going to be hard hit
over the weekend.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Jan 18 - 04:25 PM

That next storm will bring downpours of something
after the weekend --
hopefully it stays above freezing here.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Jan 18 - 01:10 PM

Winter Storm Jaxon,
whether you use the name or not,
is putting the airport in Denver to the test --
and they know from snow in Denver . . .

east of the Rocky Mountains,
parts of the Great Plains have blizzard warnings in anticipation
as the storm moves from west to east.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Jan 18 - 11:24 AM

Don't know why the next Winter Storm in the wings
has a name that rhymes with Salami.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Jan 18 - 06:45 PM

Apologies, sorry, my bad, one and all:

KALANI, not "kalami,"
is the next name up for a Winter Storm
according to the Weather Channel.

So it doesn't rhyme with Salami after all.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Jan 18 - 11:29 AM

And after Kalani,
which name has yet to be assigned to a weather system,

the next winter storm is LIAM.