What's the deal with all the hyped up storms with names nowadays?

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In the 90s/00s, I can't remember such things as Red/Orange/yellow warnings, Schools never shutdown due to a bit of wind or snow and storms didn't have names either. https://www.rte.ie/news/weather/2025/0122/1492183-storm-eowyn/
This one is going to be bad lads, for the Southwest, unless she veers North. 940hp depression. My neighbour is a skipper, says they are all making for port. Southerly storm, gotta admit I'm nervous. Stock up on candles🙄 Sick of this bloody weather.
 

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In fairness, this one looks to be a bad one.

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Yerra I'm Southwest of you ( presumeably) and the friggin' howling has started. I packed passports and documents laugh all you like.
This will be a wild one. The outer bands of this hurricane are here.
Not too southwest that I don't know what yerra means (basically how Kerry people begin a sentence :))

I think the code red doesn't start here in Dublin till 6am, so you're well ahead of us. Stay safe! Stay indoors
 

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Are we ready for the Most Dangerous Storm Ever.

 

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Down here in Co Cork the wind hit sometime in the early hours but the house still stands and, so far, touching wood, crossing fingers etc, no outages. Seems to be easing off now and as the light grows there will be a better idea of any damage, but I'm not at all sure that it was any worse than the last storm we had before Xmas, in fact some stuff that that moved then looks to have stayed in place this time round.

The snow storm of two weeks ago should defo have been a red but it wasn't called, now this, which is a lot easier to cope with and it's panic stations all round with politicians getting up on their hind legs to look very important indeed. It's all a show.
 
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Pretty serious out here, north west Co. Meath, we have lost power etc.
 

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Got a feeling that we are going to hear a lot more about this one as it actually affected Dublin rather than just blew a few culchies about, but it wasn't as bad here as the one before Xmas.
 

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