This week, when the Weather Channel announced that it would, for the first time, name up to 26 winter storms for the coming season, one for each letter of the alphabet, Q, in reference to the train, took its place on the list, joining Roman gods, a Shakespearean villain and Xerxes, the fourth king of the Persian Achaemenid Empire. (Alternatives for the X slot appear to have been few.)
The channel’s decision to name storms has been criticized by some broadcast meteorologists as a unilateral power play, prompting one to post on Twitter on Wednesday, “Who died and made them king?!”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/04/nyregion/q-line-inspires-weather-channel-as-it-names-winter-storm.html?_r=0
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