These names aren't so sweet anymore

The names of storms have been released. This is because it is an attempt to raise awareness to the public of storms. These names were agreed upon by the meteorogical services, met Éireann (Ireland) and met office (UK). The list will be used by both Met Éireann and Met Office.

"This scheme is focussed on large-scale, cyclonic windstorms with potential for significant land-based wind impacts – often systems which develop rapidly and/or move quickly towards us; this means that all severe wind events giving rise to status Orange or status Red weather warnings will be named."- Met Éireann website

The word storm technically means wind events with an average speed of 89 to 102 km/h. However, any event with harsh enough wind effects will be granted a name.

 

(All info received from the met Éireann website)