Storm Eowyn: How Met Office names UK storms and what the next will be called

With the accomplishment of Storm Eowyn this play acceptable to bring horrifying 95mph winds, we instrumentality a look astatine the Met Office's database of tempest names and the crushed down them

Storm Storm Eowyn is acceptable to onslaught the UK with 95mph upwind rainfall and snowfall - but however did it get named?

Eowyn is scheduled to deed from Friday and yellowish terrible weather warnings person been issued for Friday into Saturday for ample parts of the state - particularly those by the coast. Eowyn is acceptable to origin large disruption aft an alarming timelapse video has shown wherever it volition hit, bringing potentially unsafe winds which could bring powerfulness outages, problems with question and harm to homes.

It's the 5th named tempest from the Met Office of the 2024/25 season, and the database of names is announced connected September 1 each year, moving successful alphabetical order. The play started with Ashley, past Bert, followed by Conall, Darragh and present Eowyn, and we instrumentality a look astatine however the naming process takes place.

Why bash storms get named?

Naming storms has been a process that started successful the US backmost successful 1950 arsenic it was a mode to marque it easier for radical to "engage with upwind forecasts". It was argued naming storms and different upwind events allowed radical to comparison them, sermon and travel advice. The Met Office past followed suit and believed that it's "easier to travel the advancement of a tempest connected TV, radio, oregon societal media if it has a name" according to BBC.

The purpose down naming storms is to effort to supply a single, authoritative statement for an lawsuit that tin assistance radical pass intelligibly astir it. The crushed storms get named is rather important - arsenic it's to supply wide communication, which tin marque each the quality successful a crisis. So the anticipation of the naming strategy is to lend to keeping radical and spot arsenic harmless arsenic imaginable successful the look of utmost weather.

James, Lewis and Mavis are the latest Met Office contributions to the tempest sanction list, successful concern with Met Éireann and KNMI. These see submissions from the nationalist and names of important radical from the forecaster's 170-year history. The Met Office said: "Storms volition get named by the radical erstwhile they're deemed to person the imaginable to origin 'medium' oregon 'high' impacts successful the UK, Ireland oregon the Netherlands. The tempest names database for each twelvemonth mostly runs from aboriginal September until precocious August the pursuing year, coinciding with the opening of autumn.

When bash hurricane names get announced?

Hurricane play officially started connected June 1, and runs to the extremity of November. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration had predicted an "above average" hurricane play for 2024, with 17 to 25 named storms, 8 to 13 hurricanes, and 4 to 7 large hurricanes of Category 3 oregon higher.

Why are determination nary storms opening with Q, U, X, Y and Z?

The Met Office says that nary storms person names opening with Q, U, X, Y and Z to support successful enactment with the United States' forecasting procedure. This consistency is successful spot due to the fact that the UK and the US some person coasts connected the Atlantic Sea and truthful tin beryllium impacted by the aforesaid storms. Following the aforesaid strategy arsenic America means that names connected the North Atlantic tin beryllium done consistently crossed some countries. The names of peculiar storms tin beryllium retired from their database and replaced with thing other and if much than 21 hap successful a year, past their sanction volition beryllium taken from the Greek alphabet.

What volition the adjacent tempest beryllium called?

The afloat database for 2024/25 is:

• Ashley
• Bert
• Conall
• Darragh
• Eowyn
• Floris
• Gerben
• Hugo
• Izzy
• James
• Kayleigh
• Lewis
• Mavis
• Naoise
• Otje
• Poppy
• Rafi
• Sayuri
• Tilly
• Vivienne
• Wren

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