We all know about the Weather Channel’s ridiculous practice of naming winter storms. The latest name for a storm in “Janus” which is the name of the Roman two-faced god. In ancient Roman religion and myth, Janus is the god of beginnings and transitions, thence also of portals, doors, passages, endings and time.
This little ooops moment in live broadcasting on TWC can certainly be categorized as a “portal”.
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Storm in a p.pot?
In Louisiana the preferred name is vaginus.
Weather Channel hyped a storm named Janus
With more propaganda they try to ingrain us.
“Although the warmth you can’t feel
Global warming is real
And we’re not talking out of our… (See picture above)
Sorry
Just goes to show–you scratch an intelligent educated man, and the schoolboy humor comes out!
When they sent their people to go stand in the snow did they have them wear one of those signs that says, “The End is Near!!”?
Can anyone tell me why no names were given for tornados? With their lack of logic for naming winter storms you’d think they ought to have been giving names for tornados?
I sure hope it doesn’t make it onto their scratch and sniff weather calendar.
As a DTV customer I would go to TWC to see the “Local on the 8’s” which kept being displaced by stuff that I had no interest in seeing. Not upset by them being replaced by something focused on the weather.
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My guess would be that a tornado doesn’t last long enough for them to get days of coverage out of it.
“Rick K on January 24, 2014 at 7:23 pm
Hmmm… bad storm. Better sit this one out…”
That sentence should be told by Sean Connery!
These winter storms are getting to be a real pain in the a$$! (Can’t believe that one was still available.)
Anyway, I remember in the good old days of TWC watching former WC meterologist Alexandra Steele, who was head and shoulders above bubblehead Stephanie Abrams, and just a nanometer behind Heather Tesche in the race for “reasons to watch the old Weather Channel”.
She was reporting on Typhoon Longwang (as Dave Berry would say, “I’m not making this up”.)
She just couldn’t stop laughing. Kept apologising profusely for not being able to say the name without laughing, and the camera finally had to cut away.
I cheerfully laughed right along with her, as opposed to the well-deserved “Janus” ridicule and guffaws this bunch is receiving.,
Naming storms is silly, but we all need a bit of entertainment now and again, and this visual was pretty funny.
Have not had a TV in nearly 20 years, and am deaf, so I don’t get much out of radio… I have windows, a calendar and arthritis. Pretty much tells me all I need to know about the weather. 🙂 And we here in rural Wyoming tend to scratch our heads in puzzlement when folks in the city are terrified of a few inches of snow and a bit of a breeze. Got down to -20 with 40 MPH winds here the other night – not unusual for this time of year here. Oh, and far as I know, nobody died.
Reminds me of temporary airfields for DC3s used by mining exploration companies in the 1960s. They had been named after several planets to impose some form of traffic control in the absence of towers. We had a helicopter and pilot (Bob) stationed at “Uranus” and it wasn’t long before one exploration company’s secretary asked Bob “how’s Uranus, Bob?” “Not so worse since the fresh fruit came in.”
Forgot to mention this was in the Dawson Range in the Yukon.
Reminds me of this scene from “Life of Brian” …
Sorry, I don’t get the joke. It’s just a photo of a weather guy.
(Has morning coffee.)
Ooooooooh.
Winter storm ANUS?
ROFLMAO
Winter storms like this are consistent with rising methane levels.
Got me humming the tune, “London Derriere.”
WUWT says, “We all know about the Weather Channel’s ridiculous practice of naming winter storms.”
In the final analysis, WUWT is right again.
It must be a sh1t-storm.
I once thought the WT was insignificant. As it turns out though, the are, in fact, worth a fart in a full gale.
Ya might want to cya pdq.
WUWT is just waiting to paddle climate scientists for naming winter storms.
Mojo says:
January 24, 2014 at 7:15 pm
Not enough long Welsh names given to storms, if you ask me.
Do we really need looooong Welsh names, some of the short ones are difficult enough e.g. Wdda.
Ah. The missing “J”. Safer than alcohol though. According to our dear leader. And a few other people. Who have done the research.