Weather Channel to Begin Naming Winter Storms

The Takeaway

Yesterday The Weather Channel announced that they want to “proactively name winter storms” freeing us from the uncreative “blizzard of 2007” construction.
Cindy Gallop, an ad consultant and former chairman of BBH New York, explains the move.

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