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In article <6ccd4t$8cm$1@mwrns.noaa.gov>, rodgers@seminole.fsl.noaa.gov (Dennis Rodgers) writes:
|> In article <34f0ae9a.418702458@allnews.infi.net>, gerrym@infi.net (Ger) writes:
|> |> On 14 Feb 1998 19:06:59 GMT, rodgers@seminole.fsl.noaa.gov (Dennis Rodgers)
|> |> wrote:
|> |> 
|> |> snip...
|> |>  
|> |> >|> "Panhandle Hooker" is a meteorological term for a low pressure system that
|> |> >|> moves...(snip)
|> |> >
|> |> >I don't think this can be called a "meteorological term".  It's more like
|> |> >a TWC term, or a storm chaser term.  Cyclogenesis is a meteorological term.
|> |> 
|> |> No, it is a "meteorological" term (as opposed to a "scientific" term) along the
|> |> lines of El Nino, Bermuda High, Scirocco, Willi-willi, Santa Ana's, etc., etc.
|> 
|> 
|> Gosh, I could have sworn that meteorology is a science.  And "raining cats and
|> dogs" must be a meteorological term also.
|> -- 

Hmm.  Part of the science of meteorology is communicating a forecast/information
to an ignorant public (or colleague).  If colorful language helps, what's 
wrong with it?

Scott
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