Weather Channel Gives Winter Storm Name "Athena"

Nobody else going along with naming system

To people who were caught in snarled traffic or had to shovel snow with leaves still on the trees, the storm pulling off the East Coast on Thursday was your basic nor'easter.

To The Weather Channel, it was Athena.

The network has taken to naming winter storms, much like is done for tropical systems. The Weather Channel says it makes the storms easier to identify and will raise awareness among those in their paths.