Oh... We are naming winter storms now???
Since when did that start happening?
That’s been happening for some time. It’s quite laughable here in Michigan where getting a storm of some degree every week wouldn’t be all that unusual.
“Winter storm Yvonne may drop up to two inches of snow on Tuesday”
When people stopped paying attention to that, we started getting “Polar vortexes” (AKA, winter). They have something else this year that means the same thing. If we had real comedians, they would have fun.
Winter storm naming in the United States has been used sporadically since the mid-1700s in various ways to describe historical winter storms.
In the 2010s, winter storm naming became controversial with The Weather Channel coming up with its own list of names for winter storms similar to that of hurricanes.
Entities from the United States government, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Weather Service (NWS), have stated that they would not be naming winter storms, and have asked others to refrain from doing so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_storm_naming_in_the_United_States
I didn’t know, either.