Should We Name Droughts?  Cousin Eddie  Where was Iago? And why
am I calling it Iago?  Last Thursday, most of South Carolina
skirted a snow storm and not just any snow storm- Iago. I didn’t
realize until last week that the Weather Channel had decided on
their own to start naming winter storms.  Amazingly almost half
of their winter names are already gone this season. I have
missed Athena, Brutus, Caesar, Draco, Euclid, Freyr, Gandolf and
Helen. Weather Channel claims naming a storm raises awareness by
supposedly making it easier to follow and reference.  “Naming
winter storms will raise awareness, which will lead to more pro-
active efforts to plan ahead, resulting in less impact on the
public overall.” - Tom Niziol, the Weather Channel’s winter
weather expert  If the Weather Channel can take erratic,uneven,
and often ill-defined storms—sometimes with multiple centers—and
name them, why can’t we name our most serious droughts. Would a
name for a drought help with public communication?  When I write
about droug