It isn't the NWS, not yet anyway. Isn't it just The Weather Channel, or have some more media outlets jumped on that? I live in winter storm land, and I don't hear names being used because I refuse to watch The Weather Channel.
I had to stop watching The Weather Channel years and years ago, when they were reporting on a nothing fizzled out tropical storm where my parents live. One of the idiot crew stood outside babbling away, not a hair out of place, when a piece of paper floated by on a little gust of wind. "Look, there's some debris flying past!" this jackass said. I changed the channel and I've never watched again.
I thought it was way too much when they started naming tropical storms. 35mph winds worthy of a name? Seriously? And I hate the idiotic categories for hurricanes. What's wrong with just telling us the sustained wind speed? Do they think numbers bigger than 5 are too confusing for us to handle?
Oh, and get off my lawn! 
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