Winter Storm Ember Will Bring Snow, Ice, Rain And Wind To East This Weekend

weather.com ^ | Dec. 5, 2024 | weather.com meteorologists

[Moorings]

But it’s going to be March in two months so it will make for one of our shorter feeling winters.

Shhh...don't say such things. I am enjoying my global warming. Don't jinx it.

If we get buried in snow the next two months, I'm blaming you. ;-)

[jerod]

Every time a cloud forms they now give it a name... This new ‘woke’ weather forecasting is a true example of wokeness run amuck.

Please stop the insanity... They’re even doing it in the UK... They don’t even get hurricanes, they don’t get any serious storms. An occasionally rainy or windy day every now and then, but that’s about it and now every time they get a new cloud heading towards them to call it a name.

It’s truly sickening.

[cgbg]

“Ember Alert”

Another family custody dispute. Yawn.

:-)

[metmom]

Welcome to the northeast.

[lurk]

So now we’re giving names to snowstorms.

Participation trophies for weather doing what it is supposed to do.

[catnipman]

“heavy snow, ice, rain”

we routinely get that a lot here in colorado in the winter, but we don’t have names for such normal WEATHER ... we just call it A snow storm, or if there’s also wind, then we call it A blizzard ...

[dfwgator]

Now they name Winter Storms?

[catnipman]

Everybody should get a free T-shirt:

I
Survived
Winter
Storm
Ember!

[metmom]

Yeah, so it seems.

Not my doing but the meat of the article was the best rundown of it I found.

It seemed the least alarmist in spite of the name.

[Carriage Hill]

Agreed.
But at least they’re not naming “Lakeisha” or “Taneysha” or “LeRoy” or “Achmed” etc etc. So far...

[9YearLurker]

“Ember”?

[Jane Long]

Do other countries name ice/snow/other storms?

Does Canada? Mexico?

[metmom]

I have no idea.

[Ezekiel]

“Ember”?

As previously noted, this one calls for an Ember Alert.

Who thinks up this stuff, and why? It's already past NOVember and DECember.

Maybe that's it.

REMember REMember the 5th of January. Well no that doesn't work.

[Inspectorette]

They can name it whatever goofy name they want, it’ll never sound as impressive as “The Blizzard of 78”.

[caww]

When I lived in R.I. we got some very heavy storms there....seemed to always be mounds of wet snow piled up throughout the winters. Of course that was 20 yrs ago! Ha!