Publishing a headline such as "Weather bomb to hit......." will sell extra newspapers to the great unwashed, who ceased to think for themselves many years ago. They will buy a newspaper with that sort of headline purely on impulse, hoping to find details of the latest outrage to get upset about.
Also it is patently obvious that the majority of tabloid journalists do not research their work properly, nor do they analyse facts, trends, etc. In a previous life I sometimes worked with TV journalists, most of whom were switched on, but occasionally some would say the most ridiculous things, and clearly had almost no understanding of how basic scientific/physical/geographic processes happened.
There is a big clue in all of this; What are published in newspapers are called 'stories'.