Met Office reveals full list of newest storm names for…

Met Office reveals full list of newest storm names for 2022/23 season

Forecasters at the Met Office have revealed the storm names set up for the 2022/23 season.

The storms list - a naming system first launched in 2015 - generally runs each year from early September until late August the following year. This coincides with the beginning of autumn in the UK.

Anyone can suggest names for storms by emailing the Met Office here. In 2022, Daisy, Glen, Owain and Khalid all were suggested through email submissions, and Storm Betty won a vote on social media application Twitter - with over 12,000 votes cast in total.

Storms are named when they have potential to cause an amber or red weather warning - which comes under a threat to environment and life. Possible names are compiled into a list by the UK's Met Office, Irish forecaster Met Eireann and Dutch forecasting service, KNMI.

KNMI selected Antoni, Hendrika, Johanna and Loes, in honour of famous Dutch scientists. Meanwhile, Met Eireann chose Cillian, Fleur, Ide, and Nelly.

Will Lang, Met Office's head of situational awareness, said naming storms helps raise awareness in the public eye.

He 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.”

In a press statement, the Met Office said that 98 per cent of those within the red warning area in the southeast for Storm Eunice were aware of the warning, and 91 per cent of those took action to protect themselves, their property or business.