![]() News on severe weather is not limited to national boundaries, so the message to UK, Irish and Dutch inhabitants will be much appreciated and understood if we share the same information, starting with storm names. Quote from KNMI: Head of Forecasting KNMI, Jan Rozema: “Chances are very high that severe storms will affect all three countries involved: Ireland, the UK and The Netherlands. During past storms, the public have responded positively to the advice given by experts and this new roster of names will help us to continue to mobilise everyone to ensure we all work to minimise the effects of future events.” She says: ‘The annual unveiling of the new storm names on the 1st September creates greater public awareness and, crucially, during the winter when a storm is named for its potential Orange/Red impacts, it creates a more impactful public ‘call to action’ helping to save lives and property. Quote from Met Éireann: Evelyn Cusack, Head of Forecasting Division in Met Éireann, welcomes storm naming as a very important tool in National Met Services’ warnings arsenal. This includes ex-hurricanes as named by the National Hurricane Center in Miami such as Charley (25 th August 1986) and Ophelia (16 th October 2017). Other groups in Europe also name storms and when any National Met Service names a weather system all other Met Services keep that name. These warnings could be for wind, rain or snow or a combination. The Met Service that expects the severe weather to hit most, names the storm generally in conjunction with Orange/Red warnings. Storms are named when they could cause ‘medium’ or ‘high’ impacts in one of the partner countries and help provide consistent, authoritative messaging in times of severe weather. ![]() Since 2015 Met Éireann and the UK Met Office have been working together in a Storm Names partnership to help raise awareness of the potential impacts of severe weather and were joined by KMNI in 2019. The full list for 2022/23 is: Antoni, Betty, Cillian, Daisy, Elliot, Fleur, Glen, Hendrika, Íde, Johanna, Khalid, Loes, Mark, Nelly, Owain, Priya, Ruadhán, Sam, Tobias, Val and Wouter. Similar to previous years, each weather service has contributed names suggested by members of the public. Met Éireann along with Met Office and KNMI, the national weather services of the UK and Netherlands, have released the new list of storm names for the 2022/23 storm season. Peer-reviewed journal articles by Met Éireann staff members Past Weather Agrometeorological Bulletins
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