[情報] Whats in a Name? Frankenstorm vs Sandy

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Frankenstein (科學怪人) --> Frankenstorm (科學怪颶風)  另註: 10/31 Halloween

What's in a Name? Frankenstorm vs. Sandy

http://www.weather.com/news/weather-hurricanes/sandy-whats-in-a-name-20121027

What do you get when you mix a huge hurricane with another big storm, add a
full moon, and sprinkle in Halloween? Frankenstorm!

The name came, unexpectedly, from James Cisco, a forecaster with the
typically staid federal government's Hydrometeorological Prediction Center
(now there's a catchy name!) in College Park, Md.

Cisco first used the name Thursday afternoon in an online report:

The winds from Sandy, he wrote, will be "incorporated into a hybrid vortex
over the mid-Atlantic and Northeast next Tuesday." This "unusual merger
should settle back toward the interior Northeast through Halloween, inviting
perhaps a ghoulish nickname for the cyclone along the lines of
'Frankenstorm,' an allusion to Mary Shelley's Gothic creature of synthesized
elements."

Hybrid vortex! That's almost as cool as Frankenstorm

And where did the name Sandy come from? Well, Sandy is the "S'' storm in the
regular rotation of Atlantic hurricane names, selected years ago by the World
Meteorological Organization. If it does the damage that's predicted, this
name will certainly be retired, as are the names of all major, destructive
hurricanes.

Frankenstorm, however, will now likely go into the popular lexicon as did
previous monster storms Snowmageddon, Snowpocalypse and Snowtober.

Both Sandy and Frankenstorm are both trending on Twitter, according to USA
Today mobile editor Patty Michalski.

Despite its popularity, though, Frankenstorm is in no way an official name,
reports James Franklin, branch chief of the National Hurricane Center. Sandy
is the official name, and it always will be, he says, in all bulletins from
the center.

This will be the case even once Sandy moves ashore and is no longer a
hurricane: At that time, Franklin says, it will be referred to as
"Post-tropical Cyclone Sandy."

Too bad it didn't hit closer to Christmas ... "Sandy Claus" anyone?

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