HurricaneAndrew92 wrote:IMO they should only name nor'easters. At least ones like this.
http://imageshack.us/a/img43/6618/noreaster.jpg
So a Pacific storm that produces heavy rain, flooding and thunderstorms at low elevations in California (and maybe a tornado or two) and three or more feet of snow in the Sierra (and mountains to the east) shouldn't be named? I don't understand your reasoning.
Only naming East-Coast storms seems pretty parochial, in my opinion. Which reminds me, will they name deep lows in the Gulf of Alaska, or is that region not in the marketing strategy of TWC? I wouldn't be surprised if they just ignored the Gulf of Alaska, which, of course, would further indicate to me just how subjective their marketing plan really is. If this occurs, I will not be impressed. Nor will I be surprised.
By the way, that's NOT an eye on your satellite image...it's a warm seclusion, which is typical of the life cycle of some marine mid-latitude cyclones (see the Shapiro-Keyser cyclone model). I broach this topic because this is primarily a tropical forum...there's really nothing tropical about the structure of that storm you showed on satellite imagery...but I'll bet there are folks who think that's an eye, in the tropical sense of the word. For the record, it's not.