The Met Office has revealed the storm names for the upcoming year.
The forecaster, in partnership with Met Éireann and KNMI, is in its eight year of storm naming. It started the project to help raise awareness and to inform the public of the risk of the severe weather.
Antoni will be the first named storm of the new season, from now in 2022 into 2023. The name will be given to a storm when a "medium" or "high" impact in the UK, Ireland or the Netherlands. In addition to strong winds, impacts from rain and snow will also be considered in the naming process.
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The Met Office’s names in the list have come through submissions from the public, with Daisy, Glen, Khalid and Owain some of those submitted. KNMI’s selected names, including Antoni, Hendrika, Johanna and Loes, are named after influential Dutch scientists. Met Éireann’s submissions include Cillian, Fleur, Íde, and Nelly.
Met Office Head of Situational Awareness Will Lang said: "We know from seven years of doing this that naming storms works. Last year, Storms Arwen and Eunice brought some severe impacts to the UK and we know that naming storms helps to raise awareness and give the public the information they need to stay safe in times of severe weather."
He added: "Recent impactful storms demonstrated our ongoing need to communicate severe weather in a clear way to help the public protect themselves. Naming storms is just one way that we know helps to raise awareness of severe weather and provides clarity for the public when they need it most."
2022/23 storm names in full
Antoni
Betty
Cillian
(kill-ee-an)
Daisy
Elliot
Fleur
Glen
Hendrika
(hen-dree-ka)
Íde
(ee-da)
Johanna
(yo-hah-na)
Khalid
Loes
(l-oo-s)
Mark
Nelly
Owain
(oh-wine)
Priya
Ruadhán
(ru-awe-on)
Sam
Tobias
Val
Wouter
(vow-ter)
Why storms get named
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.
If a storm is named by a different storm naming group and impacts the UK, the given name will be used in communications, as occurred with Storm Malik in January this year. In addition, if the remnants of a hurricane has moved across the Atlantic to impact UK weather, this would be referred to as an ex-hurricane with its previously given name.
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