Martin Rowley wrote in message ...

:"Colin Youngs" wrote in message

: In 2002 it seemed that - because of lack of funds - the Berlin-Dahlem
: station 10381 of the FU Berlin would have to stop 24-hour manual
:recording
: of the weather ...
: To raise funds they hit on the idea of asking people to "sponsor" a
: depression or anticyclone

:It strikes me
:that the accountants down on FitzRoy Road might like to take the matter
:further: we could have lows and highs sponsored by commercial
rganisations!

I see from the list at
http://www.met.fu-berlin.de/wetterpate/tief/#aktuell that the weather
company MeteoSolutions has sponsored the forthcoming Low Rhea and the next
names starting X, Y and Z have been paid for by Twentieth Century Fox -
makers of the film The Day after Tomorrow
http://www.thedayaftertomorrowmovie.com/ .

In the anticyclones list
http://www.met.fu-berlin.de/wetterpate/hoch/#aktuell we see that
MeteoSolutions also paid for High Baldur in January, and a Swiss
manufacturer of caterpillar tracks for High Quintus in April.

Highs Daniel, Fabian, Lasse and Nathan - due later in the year - will appear
courtesy of Food Court Biergarten, a beer garden in the town of Heilbronn
http://www.food-court.de/ .

The rules for choosing names on the FU Berlin's website say that company
names will not be accepted unless they are also forenames !

Colin Youngs
Brussels