Media coverage of Hurricane Francis

[Perfection]

So they are saying the idea to name hurricanes came from the US military and that who exactly name them today is still a mystery.

The NWS (National Weather Service) is under the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmopheric Administration) is under the Department of Commerce not the military

Am I allowed to get paranoid now ?

Nah, maybe you could've before 1979 when they used only female names, but not anymore!

Anyways the names are rotated (http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml) so it was named long before Freedom Fries and other Iraq induced irritations!

 

[Cuivienen]

I wonder who decided to call that hurricane Frances...

Frances is tied for the most-used hurricane name. There have been seven Hurricane Franceses and seven Hurricane Arlenes. I think the NWS just likes the name Frances...

 

[Perfection]

No it's 'cause they rotate the names. Arlene and Frances just happened to be the ones that turned out to be hurricanes the most.

 

[PantheraTigris2]

Yet another event milked to death and beat into the ground and rendered meaningless by the obsessive, mindless coverage. The reporting of it is as relentless and slow moving as the hurricane. If I see one more goofball sputtering into a microphone while leaning sideways into the gale force winds, Im going to shoot the TV. Isnt it excruciating?

What? You mean you're actually just sitting around, watching the news, complaining about the coverage - instead of going to help?? Ahh, I see...





j/k

 

[stormbind]

Source: Hurricane Blog

The front edge of storm has now passed through. It has lost quite a bit of its strength, as is normal when passing over land rather than the warm ocean.

We are now in the centre and things are relatively calm.

We will get the back edge of the storm through in two to three hours, but this is not expected to be so severe.

From our vantage point we can see a lot of surface water and quite a bit of debris on the ground. One large tree has been downed and several larger branches are strewn around.

We will be able to venture out to survey any external house damage soon, we appear to have lost some roofing, as we have water penetration in one of our corridors.

I managed to speak to my near neighbour on a mobile phone and he has an oak tree which appears to have split down the middle and is now in a precarious state.

It's not often people actually give a report from the eye of a hurricane. This slow moving one is kind of like a gentle giant

Edit: I have doubts about the authenticity because further back in the blog it says Orlando, and the centre passed nowhere neat there

 

[Fifty]

What is the female name for an "X" hurricaine?

I could think of Xavier for male, but no female "X" names.

 

[stormbind]

Xena is one, and is a fairly good name for a hurricane

 

[CivCube]

Think of it this way. It's better than watching a missing-woman case.

 

[Cuivienen]

No it's 'cause they rotate the names. Arlene and Frances just happened to be the ones that turned out to be hurricanes the most.

For tropical storms, too. It's more that there has never been a large Hurricane Arlene or Hurricane Frances. (Before. There will likely never be another Hurricane Frances.) If you look at the list of names, Isabel, Floyd, Camille, Andrew, Hugo and other names of big hurricanes have been replaced since those hurricanes hit. They don't reuse the names of significant hurricanes.

 

[ManOfMiracles]

What is the female name for an "X" hurricaine?

I could think of Xavier for male, but no female "X" names.

Xaviera is the feminine form of Xavier. They could always use some Aztec names...not that the media-types could pronounce them.

I think it is rather stupid that they had curfews going and the storm was so bad the police decided to hunker down but the camera crews and weather commentators were still out there dodging debris (or breaking ribs like the chick from the Bahamian station). And they have the nerve to say the one dude out surfing was stupid when they are being equally foolish.

 

[Esckey]

Ya the media over does everything. Back when Princess Di died, Mother Teresa died bit later but they(the media) did nothing but go on and on and on and on about Di's death. I didn't find out that Mother teresa had died till a month and half later

 

[The Person]

Well, a hurricane is what the newspeople call "good news". In the media standard it doesn't matter how horrific the news, what's important is that it sells. Sodon't ask why they cover it. Ask why people (including you) are watching it. So if you don't want to watch it, don't watch it! It's as easy as that! (If you'll take the risk of missing something you like to watch.)

 

[Steph]

There's only one hurricane per letter every year...

How do they call the 27th?

 

[Bozo Erectus]

What? You mean you're actually just sitting around, watching the news, complaining about the coverage - instead of going to help?? Ahh, I see...

I was going to suck in the hurricane, fly out into orbit and then spit it into space like Superman, but my superhero suit was at the drycleaners I'll make sure to have spare suit ready for Ivan

 

[Speedo]

I dunno where you live pothead, but here the newsies do that same thing with every storm the hits the Carolinas. Somebody must find it entertaining.

How do they call the 27th?

I think the record for most hurricanes in one year is about 12-15, so it's not really a problem.