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Ryan Paton

Storm Gladys UK: What all the Met Office storms will be called in 2022

The UK has been battered by turbulent weather during a gloomy February.

Storms Dudley, Eunice and Franklin have all ripped through the country over the past seven days.

The extreme conditions prompted the Met Office to enforce "danger to life" weather warning as people were advised to "stay indoors" on Merseyside.

READ MORE: Liverpool weather forecast as Met Office issues more UK weather warnings

The forecasting agency said three storms arriving in quick succession is incredibly rare, but heavy winds arriving on Thursday have raised concerns another storm could arrive later this week.

The storm would be named Gladys if it arrived, but the Met Office said this is too far away to be confirmed.

Storms are named when they have the potential to cause an amber or red warning - and is seen as a way of improving the communication of upcoming severe weather through the media and government agencies.

The Met Office said: "In this way, the public will be better placed to keep themselves, their property and businesses safe."

The storm naming system was first introduced in 2015 and is compiled jointly between Met Éireann, the Met Office and KNMI (The Dutch national weather forecasting service).

The Met Office ask members of the public to send in suggestions for storm names and the chosen name is decided by those that best "reflect the diversity of Britain, Ireland and the Netherlands."

The names go in alphabetical order, but there are no names Q, U, X, Y and Z to avoid confusion with the US National Hurricane Centre naming conventions.

Storm names are decided each winter season so runs from September to late August - and we have rounded up the names for 2022 below.

Met Office storm names 2022

- Arwen

- Barra

- Corrie

- Dudley

- Eunice

- Franklin

- Gladys

- Herman

- Imani

- Jack

- Kim

- Logan

- Méabh

- Nasim

- Olwen

- Pól

- Ruby

- Seán

- Tineke

- Vergil

- Willemien

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