Title: Winter storm naming in the United Kingdom and Ireland - Wikipedia
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Winter storm naming in the United Kingdom and Ireland
Contents
Reasoning
Designation
Instances
Records
See also
References
External links

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Abigail 11:55 UTC, 12 November 2015
The United Kingdom's Met Office, in collaboration with its Irish counterpart Met Éireann and, since 2019, its Dutch counterpart the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, decided to introduce a storm naming system following the St Jude's day storm on 27–28 October 2013 which caused 17 deaths in Europe and the 2013–14 Atlantic winter storms in Europe to give a single, authoritative naming system to prevent confusion with the media and public using different names for the same storms. The first windstorm to be named was Abigail on 10 November 2015. In 2019 the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute decided to adopt the same naming system and since then submits a list of suggested names. The definitive list is combined from suggestions from the three countries. Contents
1 Reasoning
2 Designation
3 Instances
4 Records
5 See also
6 References
7 External links
Reasoning
The objectives behind the decision were to: Raise awareness of the dangers of storms
Ensure greater public safety
Avoid confusion if the name of the remnant of a tropical storm is used, for instance “the ex-hurricane Joaquin that reached Europe earlier this month.” Involve the public
Operate with a common cross border system
The names will be used on predicted large-scale, cyclonic windstorms with potential for significant land-based wind impacts. This may result in names being allocated to events that are below the traditional Beaufort scale definition of a storm. Designation
A storm will be named when it is deemed able to have a "substantial" impact on the UK or Ireland. Met Éireann names any storm which triggers a status Orange or Red weather warning focusing on wind, though consideration was also given to rain and snow events in 2016–17.