A list of names of the upcoming storms has been revealed by the Met Office. Names like James, Lewis and Mavis are all included in the new list which is issued every year to coincide with the beginning of autumn.
The list, which was started in 2015, runs every year from early September until late August the following year. The full list for 2024/25 is: Ashley, Bert, Conall, Darragh, Eowyn, Floris, Gerben, Hugo, Izzy, James, Kayleigh, Lewis, Mavis, Naoise, Otje, Poppy, Rafi, Sayuri, Tilly, Vivienne and Wren.
According to the Met Office, James is named after Group Captain James Stagg, who was the chief meteorologist responsible for advising General Dwight Eisenhower on the weather forecast for the D-Day landings. READ MORE: Staggering Airbnb options for Oasis fans in Manchester include £5k house and £320 to sleep in a garden Lewis is included because of Lewis Fry Richardson, who devised a theory to use maths and physics to make weather forecasts using computers.
Mavis is named after Mavis Hinds, who worked on the earliest Met Office computers. Along with Met Eireann in Ireland and KNMI, the Dutch weather service, meteorologists name storms so that the communication of severe weather is easier.
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