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The institute that chooses what to name a hurricane will stop
their current methods and implement the new one which will
raise millions upon millions (depending on the storm's size and
projected path of course) of dollars for the future research
of weather prediction, etc. Lives (and beachfront
property)
will be saved by implementing new methods of weather
forecasting, methods invented by allowing soft drink giants,
financial corps., internet moguls and even brewers to stake
their claim via bidding early on once a tropical storm has been
upgraded. Simulated news report: "Hurricane Expedia.com is
now a category 3 storm; there is a mandatory evacuation for
all of coastal Florida. Anyone who makes it inland prior to the
end of this broadcast will save 10 to 15% on any hotel rate in
Orlando".
Germany: 299 EUR high-pressure, 199 EUR low
http://www.met.fu-berlin.de/wetterpate/
Must be a common first name; gender and first letter are fixed. Guess who's getting ready to bring some sunshine after "Imogen" moves through? [jutta, Feb 18 2007]
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I'm not so sure I'd want my company name associated with a storm that kills 70 people and cost 25 billion dollars in property damage. |
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The flip side would be to gobble up all the advertising for the television weather broadcasts. |
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"This hurricane warning brought to you by so-and-so, makers of small boats." |
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Have you ever noticed there's a shortage of insurance advertising, during the approach of a hurricane/cyclone? |
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Over the top naming rights half-baked in 'Infinite Jest' by
David Foster Wallace. Can't remember a hurricane, per
se, but just about everything else including the name of
the year. |
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Let the competition do the paying. "Wendy's and Burger King won the bid to name the incoming hurricane Ronald. Combined payment was $3Mio. McDonald's lost the bid with an offer of only $500k." |
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The current naming system for cyclones in Oceania is simple. |
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Alternate male and female names, beginning with A, through to Z, each calendar year. It used to be just female names, but the liberation movement of the 70s put paid to that. |
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Cyclone Tracy was the 21st cyclone of 1974, hitting Darwin on December 25 and killing 65 people, from memory. |
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Maybe we should just follow the Microsoft format for naming disasters, and call them 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, etc. |
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//follow the Microsoft format // |
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"The death and destruction? It's a feature, not a bug!" |
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//The current naming system for cyclones in Oceania is simple.// |
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Its the exact same system for Hurricanes in the Atlantic. I suspect it's a planetwide system. |
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Well, on one side of the planet it's the name for the cyclone, on the other side it was the name for this cute butterfly's wing flap. |
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