Advocates want to name heatwaves like hurricanes to raise awareness of dangers
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Re: Advocates want to name heatwaves like hurricanes to raise awareness of dangers
#2Sounds like a good idea. It might be harder to delineate when a heatwave is worthy of being named, but I'm sure the Met office (or the equivalent across the Atlantic) can manage it.
That said, I'm not convinced that giving it a name is enough to make people consider it dangerous.
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#3I am not a fan. We’re heading to naming all the major weather which happens often and is just going to desensitize people.
The NOAA already doesn’t recognize winter storm names and I would expect them to use the same rationale for not naming heat waves, cold waves or any other extreme weather events that don’t bring destruction. (Not arguing against the danger of heatwaves).
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#4In germany, the high pressure areas are named after male names and low pressure after female names: https://www.bavariannews.com/blog/2018/10/03/how-storms-in-g...
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#5Half-jokingly: let's give them some scary sounding, hellish names.
Hurricane Benedict sounds like a friendly neighbour.
Heatwave Astaroth - that's some serious stuff right here.
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#6In germany, the high pressure areas are named after male names and low pressure after female names: https://www.bavariannews.com/blog/2018/10/03/how-storms-in-g...
As the article you cited points out, this has been changed in 1998. Low pressure areas get male names in odd years and female names in even years; vice versa for high pressure areas.
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#7In the US the weather channel tried to do the same thing for winter storms. No one else pays any attention to their names at all.
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#8Give natural disasters a CVE code
Re: Advocates want to name heatwaves like hurricanes to raise awareness of dangers
#9In germany, the high pressure areas are named after male names and low pressure after female names: https://www.bavariannews.com/blog/2018/10/03/how-storms-in-g...
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Re: Advocates want to name heatwaves like hurricanes to raise awareness of dangers
#10Half-jokingly: let's give them some scary sounding, hellish names. Hurricane Benedict sounds like a friendly neighbour. Heatwave Astaroth - that's some serious stuff right here.
As long as we're half-joking: future headline prompting mass-murder if your suggestion taken up - Local Church announces NOAA aligned with Satan, heatwave caused by federal government trying to hasten onset of the antichrist!