Heard of bomb cyclones and polar vortexes? Get ready for “Harry Styles Storms.”

American Meteorology Association spokesperson Sunny Deigh explained the adoption of new descriptors.

“While ‘atmospheric river,’ ‘heat dome,’ and other scary sounding terms drew eyeballs for a while, the public quickly got desensitized. We tried adding adjectives like ‘vicious’ to heat dome, but it didn’t have the effect we wanted.”

When asked what “vicious heat dome meant?” Deigh replied reluctantly.

“It means it’s gonna be hot,” Deigh said. “I mean the temperatures kinda tell you that already, so no one really cared if it was a vicious heat dome or just a heat dome, or just the old fashioned heat wave.”

When asked to explain the new Taylor Swift Boyfriend system, Deigh was enthusiastic.

“For example, say a storm is coming in straight along the line of the Jet Stream with no deviation, we’re going to call it a Harry Styles storm ’cause he was part of One Direction. Get it?”

“Then if you get a storm that just doesn’t quite develop into something significant we call it a ‘John Mayer’ since Taylor and John never heated up.”

“We even have a name for weather events that we expect to hit, but don’t. Like a hurricane that doesn’t make landfall. Those will be Gyllenhaals ’cause Jake Gyllenhaal didn’t show up at Taylor’s 21st birthday party and broke her heart.”

When asked if using Taylor Swift’s boyfriends is just a cheap trick to get more attention, Deigh was defensive.

“It’s not like we’re some low rated blogger who’s name dropping just get more people to read his blog!”

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