How did Storm Bert get its name? Full list of storm names for 2024/2025

Storm Bert is acceptable to batter the UK this play with 70mph winds, dense rain and successful immoderate parts more snow.

The Met Office has issued yellow upwind warnings to commencement astatine 4am connected Saturday until astatine slightest 9am connected Sunday crossed occidental and bluish England, Wales and Scotland, with amber alerts successful parts of Scotland.

Storm Bert is the 2nd sanction successful the Met Office’s 2024/25 tempest list, released successful August, aft Ashley, this season’s archetypal storm, which wreaked havoc successful October.

The database – archetypal launched successful 2015 – mostly runs from aboriginal September until precocious August the pursuing year, coinciding with the opening of autumn

The monikers are each inspired by the Met Office’s 170-year history.

Other names that made this year’s database see James, Lewis, Mavis

The forecaster said James is named aft Group Captain James Stagg, who was the main meteorologist liable for advising General Dwight Eisenhower connected the weather forecast for the D-Day landings.

Lewis comes from Lewis Fry Richardson, who devised a mentation to usage maths and physics to marque upwind forecasts utilizing computers.

Mavis is named aft Mavis Hinds, who worked connected the earliest Met Office computers.

In the outgoing year, determination were 12 named storms successful alphabetical order.

It was the archetypal clip determination were capable to get arsenic acold arsenic the missive L, with Storm Lilian, truthful unless we person a peculiarly stormy twelvemonth it’s improbable we’ll get to spot Storm Wren.

The UK Met Office works with the Irish Met Eireann successful Ireland and Dutch upwind work KNMI to prime the names.

Will Lang, who leads terrible upwind responses for the Met Office, said successful August: ‘This year, arsenic we observe our 170th birthday, it’s large to beryllium capable to honour those who person had an interaction connected our agelong past of pioneering upwind and clime subject services.’

Although Storm Bert is expected to bring with it hazardous weather, Met Office Deputy Chief Meteorologist Dan Holley said ‘marks a displacement to overmuch milder aerial and wintry hazards volition gradually diminish done the weekend.’

However, helium added, ‘Heavy snowfall is expected crossed parts of bluish England and Scotland for a clip connected Saturday, particularly implicit higher ground, and  warnings are successful place.

‘Heavy rainfall done Saturday and Sunday, particularly successful confederate and occidental parts of the UK, volition besides bring impacts for immoderate with a fig of warnings successful place.

‘We expect 50-75 mm of rainfall rather wide wrong the informing areas, but successful excess of 100 mm is imaginable implicit precocious crushed successful parts of Wales and southwest England.’

‘In addition, accelerated melting of lying snowfall implicit the play and periods of beardown winds are apt to exacerbate impacts and bring the imaginable for question disruption, arsenic good arsenic flooding for some.’

A mentation of this nonfiction was primitively published connected August 29, 2024

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