Aiden, Bella and Darcy are some of the new storm names this year.
Met Éireann has issued its list for 2020/2021 season, which also includes Oscar, Veronica and Wilson.
Met Éireann, along with UK Met Office and KNMI (the Dutch National Weather Service), have released the list of storm names for the 2020-21 storm season https://t.co/UKZtRwqro1#StormNames #Stoirm pic.twitter.com/m7NZN1jA8V
— Met Éireann (@MetEireann) September 1, 2020
It's been compiled in collaboration with the Met offices in the UK and the Netherlands and are based on suggestions from the public.
Some of the more unusual names on the list include Klaas, Ravi and Heulwen.
Naming storms was first introduced by Met Éireann and the UK Met Office in 2015 and joined by the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) in 2019 forming the West group.
Once a storm is named by any National Met Service globally, that name is retained if the storm moves into our waters.
For example, Ophelia and Lorenzo were named by the National Hurricane Center (NHC, USA) and Emma by IPMA (Portugal).
The names are in alphabetical order, alternating between genders.
Evelyn Cusack is Head of Forecasting at Met Éireann and is also Chair of the European Met Services’ Storm Naming Working Group;
"The naming of storms by National Met Services (as well as colour coding weather warnings as Yellow, Orange or Red) provides a clear, authoritative and consistent message to the public" she said.
Evelyn adds; "The storm names also add an extra interest for people with particular excitement in a family when one of their names appears in the list."
