Blizzards are characterized by high winds. Traditionally sustained winds of 50 km/h (30 mph) were required along with heavy snow.
Now the measure is visibility - a combination of winds and snow that limits visibility to 400 metres or yards is a blizzard. I guess my problem with the whole "snow event " nomenclature is that we had a perfectly useful and universally understood name for what eastern North America just experienced: a "winter storm". "Snow event " seems like more of the CNN-ization of our culture. Silly, but I'm not going to lose a lot of sleep over it. ;-) Cheers, frank --- Original Message --- From: "Daniel J. Matyola" <danmaty...@gmail.com> Sent: February 10, 2013 2/10/13 To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> Subject: Re: PESO -- Major Snow Event? I believe they termed it a Major snow event" because it doesn't really meet the definition of a blizzard, yet "snow fall" falls short. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 3:05 AM, Aahz Maruch <a...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 10, 2013, David Mann wrote: >> On Feb 10, 2013, at 3:22 PM, David Parsons <parsons.da...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> I blame the 24 hour news cycle. When you need to fill programming >>> time, any catchy names will grab eyeballs. It's the same reason that >>> the Weather Channel named the storm Nemo. >> >> Cue lawsuit from Disney :D > > They wouldn't come within a league of winning. > -- > Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ > <*> <*> <*> > Help a hearing-impaired person: http://rule6.info/hearing.html > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
