The Weather Channel Releases 2014-15 Winter Storm Names, and They're Terrible — mashable.com

The Weather Channel is continuing its practice of unilaterally naming winter storms, which it began doing two winters ago. The list of storm names for the upcoming winter came out on Wednesday, and they're awful. Naming any type of storm without the endorsement of the National Weather Service — which does not name anything other than tropical storms and hurricanes — is controversial within the meteorological community.

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