Weather.com Storm Names

[Joel S. Berson]

At 2/11/2013 12:57 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
>More here:
>
>http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/02/its-no-coincidence-that-your-favorite-characters-are-now-winter-storms

And the above notes:
>My new favorite person Norcross also told WBEZ that this year's J
>storm was nearly named "Jor-El".
Jorel  (as I once signed myself here)

>http://www.wbez.org/series/dynamic-range/meet-star-trek-loving-meteorologist-who-named-winter-storm-khan-105160
>
>Our suspicions are correct about their desire to avoid trademarked
>names but still work on associations with fantasy/sci-fi genres.

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