Brace yourselves, East Coast: You are about to get hit with a whole sh*tstorm of snow this weekend.
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Snowstorm Nemo is expected to land in New York City (the home of GlobalGrind) at around 7 p.m. tomorrow evening. By the time the snow stops falling in the city, at around 5 a.m. Saturday morning, expect anywhere from 10 to 14 inches of the white stuff to be on the ground.
One of the more interesting aspects of the storm is the name. Nemo. Honestly, when you think about the name Nemo, you don’t think of a powerful snowstorm. You think of little cute animated fishies.
So what’s the deal with the name? Where’d it come from? Is the naming system like the one we use with Hurricanes? It is, in fact, not.
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As it turns out, in October, The Weather Channel gave themselves the authority to start naming snowstorms.
Before that, snowstorms didn’t get cool names that hurricanes got (like Wilma, and Ike). Instead, snowstorms were called “The Great Storm…” or something nondescript like that.
So we decided to go back, find some of the worst storms in United States history, and give it a classic ratchet name.
Scroll down and take a look as we rewrite history.
The Great Snow of 1717
When: February and early March of 1717
GlobalGrind’s Ratchet Name: Snowstorm Svetlana
The Great Blizzard of 1888
When: March 11-14 1888
GlobalGrind’s Ratchet Name: Snowstorm Abernethy
Schoolhouse Blizzard
When: January 12-13 1888
GlobalGrind’s Ratchet Name: Snowstorm Marquise
The Great Lakes Storm of 1913
When: Nov 7 – 10, 1913
GlobalGrind’s Ratchet Name: Snowstorm Cherri
Chicago Blizzard of 1967
When: January 26, 1967
GlobalGrind’s Ratchet Name: Snowstorm Damala
Blizzard of 1977
When: January 28 to February 1, 1977
GlobalGrind’s Ratchet Name: Snowstorm Jahary
Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978
When: February 5-6 1978
GlobalGrind’s Ratchet Name: Snowstorm Malaysia
The Storm of the Century 1993
When: March 12-15, 1993
GlobalGrind’s Ratchet Name: Snowstorm Humberto
North American blizzard of 2006
When: February 12-13, 2006
GlobalGrind’s Ratchet Name: Snowstorm Leroy
December 2010 North American blizzard
When: December 22-29, 2010
GlobalGrind’s Ratchet Name: Snowstorm Precious
