When and why did blowy days get names?

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And also what is with Jeorge which it seems is pronounced Horhay?

Who decided to call them names?
Why?
Who decides on the names?

www.google.se/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/amp/34581210

what is with Jeorge which it seems is pronounced Horhay?

It's Jorge. It's a Spanish name, pronounced accordingly.

I think the theory was that naming storms would encourage people to take them more seriously in terms of taking precautions.

And as per another thread, this storm hit Spain first so they gave it a name and protocol is to keep using that one rather than switch to one from the UK/Ireland list.

The Americans have been doing it for decades but yes it’s a recent introduction here.

The name is Spanish as it was named by the Spanish weather service as it hit there first.

Not all "blowy days" are given names. Only storms which reach a minimum severity are. A named storm is one considered powerful enough to cause damage and disruption.

It's Jorge. It's a Spanish name, pronounced accordingly.

Well I understand that it is being pronounced correctly but why was that name chosen?

Someone on Twitter said at this rate it'll be easier to start naming the repsite between the storms.

I had wondered this too but couldn’t be bothered to look it up. Cheers for the link banivani.
I used to live in the States and liked the idea of named hurricanes. Normally because they were properly dangerous and people tracking them as they came in from the ocean, was absolutely key.
Naming “amber warning” storms is daft here though. We get too many and they really aren’t that serious for most of us. It has an opposite effect in that people take the storms less seriously, if there’s a named storm every weekend.
Think it’s the Met Office trying to come up with another way of trying to seem invaluable, it a world of tech that makes weather easier to predict.

The name is Spanish as it was named by the Spanish weather service as it hit there first.

Cross post. I see.

I know the Americans have been doing it for years but that is actual tornadoes and stuff.

Because they wanted to.

Just like we named one Dennis.

OP, some storms are just ‘blowy days’ for some, but serious storms in other places.

Storm Ellen was just a really windy day in my city. It wreaked havoc elsewhere. We were a long way from the worst of it.

No one names tornadoes. They do name hurricanes. Maybe google OP? There's a protocol for which storms get named and by whom.