Met Éireann, along with the UK 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.
The list for 2022/23 runs through in alphabetical order giving a list of 21 storm names beginning with Antoni and ending with Wouter. Typical Irish names such as Cillian and Ruadhán are included. The full list also includes Betty, Daisy, Elliot, Fleur, Glen, Hendrika, Íde, Johanna, Khalid, Loes, Mark, Nelly, Owain, Priya, Sam, Tobias, Val and Wouter.
Since 2014 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.
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. The weather service that expects the severe weather to hit most names the storm, generally in conjunction with Orange/Red warnings. These warnings could be for wind, rain or snow or a combination of these elements.
