I know the Weather Channel started naming bad storm in the US, but that's only a Weather Channel thing. It doesn't carry over onto any other reporting service, though sometimes it's picked up by local media. The only "official" names are those given to tropical storms and hurricanes.
The whole issue of "naming" natural phenomenon is fascinating--I've been reading a bit more given the attempts to rename Denali and the Gulf of Mexico! Marcel's comment which came in after yours says it was the Dutch not the Brits, and has information on the storm names: https://snyder.substack.com/p/why-is-musk-trump-the-mump-regime
I know the Weather Channel started naming bad storm in the US, but that's only a Weather Channel thing. It doesn't carry over onto any other reporting service, though sometimes it's picked up by local media. The only "official" names are those given to tropical storms and hurricanes.
The whole issue of "naming" natural phenomenon is fascinating--I've been reading a bit more given the attempts to rename Denali and the Gulf of Mexico! Marcel's comment which came in after yours says it was the Dutch not the Brits, and has information on the storm names: https://snyder.substack.com/p/why-is-musk-trump-the-mump-regime
I did a short piece on this - and funnily enough, it was the Dutch who "came up" with Éoywn, not the Brits, as you would assume :)
https://steadyhq.com/en/thetolkienist/posts/c1cb4eec-fcae-4b00-b98c-823cda1d94ef
Thank you--that's fascinating (plus MORE Tolkien names!)
I'm going to add this to my post!