• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

Winter Storm Athena

Yes, and the administrative message I saw from NWS was even better. I like how they put the beat down on that one.....

Tim
 
Now Brutus? I don't know if I support this idea even though I posted about them last night that I thought TWC was doing better. I guess the naming convention isn't just for Nor'easters either.
 
Brutus...really? Are they going to call the next one Caesar? Winter Storm Soothsayer...on the ides of March. Write it down.
 
If anybody has any, I'd love to see some winter/snow photos from this storm focusing on the beauty.
Also I do believe that snow this far south is a good 3 weeks early..
 
It's funny because TWC said they weren't going to be liberal with this process, that they were saving these names only for the most crippling of storms. Already 2 out of the bag in the first week of November? Shocking that they lied.

It's seriously the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen from TWC, and that's saying a lot. I don't watch TWC anymore because of this crap but I heard from a friend of mine that they were actually doing 24/7 coverage of the 6 inch snowstorm in the northeast. Really, they're now going round the clock for that? What a joke of an "organization".
 
It's funny because TWC said they weren't going to be liberal with this process, that they were saving these names only for the most crippling of storms. Already 2 out of the bag in the first week of November? Shocking that they lied.

It's seriously the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen from TWC, and that's saying a lot. I don't watch TWC anymore because of this crap but I heard from a friend of mine that they were actually doing 24/7 coverage of the 6 inch snowstorm in the northeast. Really, they're now going round the clock for that? What a joke of an "organization".

Well, since "Athena" is impacting areas already struggling to recover from Hurricane/Superstorm Sandy -- including causing more power outages in some areas that are still trying to get the juice back on from Sandy -- I can kind of understand TWC pulling out more of the stops for it. But I do question why they've already trotted out "Brutus" for the next one. I don't believe blizzards in November in the northern Rockies/Plains are all that unprecedented or destructive.
 
"Brutus" has already been named as the storm coming into the Pacific northwest. Puh-leeze.
 
I think its a bunch of bull crap to name some run of the mill snow storm or winter storm at that. What they need to do is wait until the storms start to produce a lot of major weather before giving them names.
 
It's a stupid gimmick made to draw attention to themselves. Thank goodness the NWS and other entities have decided against going along with this. My hope is it doesn't catch on with the general public or with internet publications, if that's the case maybe it will go away fairly quickly.

Gotta love the throw it up against the wall and see what sticks mentality.
 
List of names for 2013:

The official list of names for 2013:

Asinine
Brainless
Comical
Dumb
Empty
Foolish
Grumpy
Hilarious
Idiotic
Joke
Kooky
Ludicrous
Meaningless
Nonsensical
Outrageous
Preposterous
Quack
Ridiculous
Senseless
Trivial
Unwise
Vacuous
Wacky
XXX
Yahoos
Zombie
 
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