[pepsi_junkie]

Back in the day, only big storms were named. But then after Katrina when they predicted that due to climate change there would be massive Cat 5 hurricanes in waves and waves, nothing happened. Totally quiet for several years. It hurt the narrative. So what to do when there aren't any big storms to name? Start naming the small ones.

So all of a sudden a new phrase appeared and was reported on. "Named storms". "Number of named storms at historic high!" stuff like that. Propeganda restored.

But people get that named storms is BS. And we see it here, they are at the point where they have to say "THIS named storm is actually a big one".

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Exactly. And they’ve started naming Snow Storms, for Pete’s Sake!

*Rolleyes*

[Round Earther]

Since the early 1950’s all hurricanes have been assigned names, from the very strongest of hurricanes to storms that just barely reached hurricane strength.

The naming process has nothing at all to do with Katrina.

Once a tropical storm reaches sustained winds of >74 mph, it is a hurricane, that was the case in 1958 and is the case in 2022.

[Romulus]

Hurricane expert from New Jersey.

[Deplorable American1776]

I was wondering about Storm G, Gaston is in the middle of the Atlantic closer to Iceland than the tropics.