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I have no idea what twerp decided British storms should have names, but has anyone looked at what it's done to the weather since?

Storm Henry takes grip in Scotland

List of previous named weather outrages since this idiocy started
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Oh, great. Pretty soon we'll be naming blizzards, and such.
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That 87 sucker never had a name, apart from what I called it.
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They'll still be talking about Michael Fish's Hurricane a hundred years from now.
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spot;1492253 wrote: They'll still be talking about Michael Fish's Hurricane a hundred years from now.


Appropriately called Charlie as I recall :-)
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