Friday Funny, bonus Weather Channel edition

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”.

Winter_storm_janus

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haldall
January 25, 2014 5:07 pm

And where is the eye of the storm?

January 25, 2014 6:17 pm

Actually, they aren’t so much naming winter storms, they are naming any normal winter cold front that is associated with more than a few inches of precipitation in the form of snow. It would be like naming cold fronts that bring rain in summer. It is just dumb. It is a way to try to hype perfectly normal events into drawing eyeballs to ads which is basically how they make their money. Weather Channel isn’t about informing people about weather so much as it is about selling ads to eyeballs.

asybot
January 25, 2014 7:15 pm

haldal 5.07 9LOLbtw), and is the eye not supposed to be the quiet part of the storm?

January 26, 2014 7:04 pm

I think this shows that despite the loss of of DirectTV they still expect to doo well.