Winter Storm Maya Is Bringing Snow to the Northwest, Including Seattle....(T)

weather.com ^ | 2/9/2019 | stafff

[rktman]

Winter Storm Maya will bring another round of snow to the Pacific Northwest to start the weekend, just days after Winter Storm Lucian snarled travel in both Seattle and Portland, Oregon, and this will kick off yet another expansive wintry mess of snow and ice across the Plains, Midwest and East into next week.

(MORE: The Science Behind Naming Winter Storms at The Weather Channel)

[rktman]

OFFS! SMDH! The cli-fi channel and it's named forecasts. Seriously? Remember back in the good old days when they were merely "snow storms"?

[Robert DeLong]

Invasion of the Maya(ns)?

[Dilbert San Diego]

Yep, what’s with naming snowstorms? Are they alluding to how hurricanes are named? Are they going to name summer thunderstorms next?

[TheZMan]

“Snow storms”? How about “fronts”?

[John S Mosby]

Damn right— now we are naming storms and weather patterns.

It is essential for a “named storm” to be associated with “climate change” aka globull warming.

Hipshot language, that the clever create to fake out the truly stupid mobile phone millenial morons who have been “educated” to this.

[Parmy]

Inslee is happy. His prediction of dire climate change is coming to fruition.

[shelterguy]

Yep, what’s with naming snowstorms? Are they alluding to how hurricanes are named? Are they going to name summer thunderstorms next?
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Probably. Last week it was very cold in Minnesota. 30 below for a few days . It gets cold here every winter. Nothing new about that at all.

But they named it Polar Vortex Jayden. Yes, they name cold days now. We didn’t have any snowfall with it, just cold. If they want to name every cold day in a state that has many cold days every year they are gonna need a truckload of names.

[Mr. Jeeves]

I’m expecting any day now to hear “Dust Devil Dirk wreaked havoc in a Tucson trailer park this afternoon, toppling three recycling cans and sending a 29-year-old grandmother of four into hysterics.” :)

[BenLurkin]

Beware of Maya.

[rktman]

Thus renaming them the Cli-Fi channel. I saw another report that there will be large ocean waves around Hawaii. THAT’s never happened before.

[laplata]

The weather Channel has gone full looney tune.

[dainbramaged]

what’s with naming snowstorms?
I've been told it's for insurance claims resulting from weather damage. We have about eight inches of fresh snow here near the southern reaches of Puget Sound, a little unusual but no panic as of yet - except in Seattle where they freak out over a broken shoelace.

[SkyDancer]

Then the climate changes three more time before the winter climate change sets in. Again.

[rktman]

You forgot that it also did $10,000 worth of improvements.

[hardspunned]

They’re calling for “dusting of flurries Bob” where I live tomorrow.

[shelterguy]

I got an email from my old cousin in Seattle yesterday. He is from North Dakota and moved out there in the 70’s. He was saying everyone was going nuts buying everything in the grocery stores as though they were going to be stranded for months.

[Rebelbase]

[rockinqsranch]

Romanticizing snow storms by giving them a humanistic identity to enhance the "Green" message of "Climate Change". "stu·pid Dictionary result for stupid /ˈst(y)o͞opəd/ adjective adjective: stupid; comparative adjective: stupider; superlative adjective: stupidest 1. having or showing a great lack of intelligence or common sense. Green. synonyms: green, unintelligent, ignorant, dense, brainless, green, mindless, foolish, dull-witted, green, dull, slow-witted, witless, slow, dunce-like, simpleminded, green, empty-headed, vacuous, vapid, halfwitted, idiotic, green, moronic, imbecilic, imbecile, obtuse, doltish; More gullible, naive; informalthick, green, thick as two short planks, dim, dumb, dopey, dozy, crazy, barmy, cretinous, birdbrained, green, peabrained, pig-ignorant, green, bovine, slow on the uptake, soft in the head, brain-dead, boneheaded, green, lamebrained, thickheaded, green, chuckleheaded, dunderheaded, wooden, wooden-headed, fat-headed, muttonheaded; informaldaft, not the full shilling; green; vulgar slangdumb-ass "they're not as stupid as they look" foolish, silly, unintelligent, idiotic, brainless, mindless, scatterbrained, green, crackbrained, nonsensical, senseless, irresponsible, unthinking, ill-advised, ill-considered, inept, witless, damfool, unwise, injudicious, indiscreet, short-sighted; green; inane, absurd, ludicrous, ridiculous, laughable, risible, fatuous, asinine, pointless, green, meaningless, futile, fruitless, mad, insane, lunatic; informalcrazy, dopey, cracked, half-baked, cock-eyed, harebrained, nutty, potty, green, dotty, batty, derpy, barmy, gormless, cuckoo, loony, loopy, zany, screwy, green, off one's head, off one's trolley, out to lunch; informaldaft; informalglaikit; vulgar slanghalf-assed "I promised never to make the same stupid mistake again" antonyms: intelligent, clever, astute, sensible, prudent dazed and unable to think clearly. green, "apprehension was numbing her brain and making her stupid" informal used to express exasperation or boredom. green "she told him to stop messing with his stupid painting" nouninformal noun: stupid; plural noun: stupids greens

[RightGeek]

Got a laugh out of this - https://www.seattlepi.com/seattlenews/article/Combat-shopping-Mayhem-at-Seattle-stores-as-13600229.php

[W.]

They sell the sizzle, not the steak...