Half-jokingly: let's give them some scary sounding, hellish names.
Hurricane Benedict sounds like a friendly neighbour.
Heatwave Astaroth - that's some serious stuff right here.
Name them after oil and coal companies. "Death toll of Heatwave Exxon rises".
As long as we're half-joking: future headline prompting mass-murder if your suggestion taken up - Local Church announces NOAA aligned with Satan, heatwave caused by federal government trying to hasten onset of the antichrist!