Q, The Perfect Storm

The Weather Channel has named a future winter storm Q after our local subway line.

For the countless Q fans among us, the reasons are less than thrilling. The line is not the namesake of a violent weather event because of its #1 ranking as one might at first assume — if one makes any assumptions at all about this kind of news.

“We could not find a good Q,”  Bryan Norcross, the Weather Channel’s director of weather content who wrote the list, told the New York Times. As if that wasn’t enough, it’s pretty unlikely that the storm list will reach the 17th letter in the alphabet.

The Q itself has not commented yet, likely out of a sense of paralyzing confusion. For their part, an MTA spokesman was “leery of anything that equates a remarkably well-run subway system with disruptions to millions of people across the country.”

When in doubt, Q.