I’m sure you’ve been calling our big windstorm all sorts of names, especially if it knocked anything over onto your house. Now the National Weather Service requests that you put your grumblings to good use and name the storm. Name it something catchy, to fall in line with such gems as, “The Turkey Day Storm of 1983″ and “The Hood Canal Windstorm of 1979.”

I know you can come up with something better than that. “We are not permitted to offer a big prize, but we will announce the winner shortly after the Jan 4th entry deadline via our web site at weather.gov/seattle. The winner will be able to say, ‘I named that storm! [NOAA ^[1]]‘” Email your ideas to: namethewindstorm@noaa.gov. And then let us know what you picked.