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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2614534, member: 19463&quot;]We are snowed in today.&nbsp; Stevex6 would call it flurries but that is not the purpose of this post.&nbsp; My wife noted that the TV sometimes referred to the storm as &#039;Helena&#039; but she was not aware of winter storms being names as are Tropical hurricanes.&nbsp; That caused me to find this list of the names selected for this season:</p><p><a href="https://weather.com/storms/winter/news/winter-storm-names-2016-2017" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://weather.com/storms/winter/news/winter-storm-names-2016-2017" rel="nofollow">https://weather.com/storms/winter/news/winter-storm-names-2016-2017</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The highlight to me was the names were selected through input from a high school Latin class in Bozeman, Montana.&nbsp; Of course the other highlight is the fighting over the practice between the Weather Channel and other weather services that consider the idea inappropriate.&nbsp; I&#039;m happy to see that classical studies has not completely abandoned Bozeman.&nbsp; I wonder if anyone there still (or is it &#039;still there&#039;) collects ancient coins.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://dsx.weather.com//util/image/w/2016-2017-winter-names.jpg?v=ap&amp;w=980&amp;h=551&amp;api=7db9fe61-7414-47b5-9871-e17d87b8b6a0" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I really would like to make this post coin related but the Weather Channel defined Helena as the girl from Troy for whom I have no coins rather than the mother of Constantine for whom I do.&nbsp; I can&#039;t help wondering how many names match those of Latin students. </p><p><br /></p><p>May Winter Storm Helena (or the unnamed as you prefer) not impair the NYIC this week.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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