Monday, 31 January 2022
Storm names
Naming storms has already become dull so why not name them after people, events or anything else which has caused real damage. Storm Blair, Storm Heath, Storm Ferguson, Storm Epidemiology, Storm EU, Storm Woke and so on. Mildly controversial perhaps, but lots of scope to increase damage awareness.
It could be on the school curriculum - a GCSE course in Damage Awareness and no leaving school until you pass. Unfortunately woke nonsense would be slipped in I suppose. We'd end up with variants of Storm Carbon or Storm SUV. Hmm - bad idea on the whole. The inevitability of corruption.
I originally thought of naming storms using wider historical references such as Storm Æðelstān, but it wouldn’t have the same immediacy as Storm Woke. A pity.
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It'll woke down to Gust Harry, Belch Boris and Fart Wilfid one day, then the BBC can claim total woke oblivion.
Scrobs - I think total woke oblivion is where the BBC would like to be, with us all paying the licence fee from cradle to grave.
Could we call a storm "und Drang"?
We had some fairly strong winds one night recently. The next day my neighbour mentioned the storm, I didn't say anything but did wonder what constitutes a storm (force eight I think). Light rain can be "pissing dahn" to some people, a warm day becomes a heat wave and strong wind becomes a storm. No wonder we are all so scared of extreme weather events.
Maybe we should name other weather phenomena. Heat wave Pamela Anderson, Shower Russian hotel room and so on.
dearieme - we could. As a nod towards diversity every known language could be used one after the other.
Andy - a trick they pull with names is that most areas of the country only see some blustery weather and don't see a storm at all. Heat wave Pamela Anderson is a good idea, but naming heat waves might lead to naming a fine day as a heat wave.
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