UPDATE: The Weather Channel tells us why it started naming storms. One of its reasons: "A storm with a name takes on a personality all its own, which adds to awareness." Also, to gather viewers:
"...it might even be fun and entertaining and that in itself should breed interest from our viewing public and our digital users. For all of these reasons, the time is right to introduce this concept for the winter season of 2012-13."
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Interesting set of names they've got there -- apparently winter storms don't sound fearsome enough unless they have names from Shakespeare, the classics, or Harry Potter (to be fair, Draco or Iago sound a lot more threatening than Hurricane Floyd from a few years back). Could they really not think of a single name beginning with Q, though? Questa? Qetesh? Quetzlcoatl? Quibbler, for Potter fans? Too bad they probably don't take outside submissions!
Well, if you're naming storms for entertainment purposes, the weirder, the better!
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