Met Office Head of Situational Awareness Will Lang, who leads responses in times of severe weather, said: “We do it because it works. Naming storms helps to make communication of severe weather easier and provides clarity.”
According to the Met Office, surveys following Storm Floris in August 2025 found that 93% of people in amber warning areas were aware of the alerts, and 83% took action to prepare.
Wind is the main factor for naming a storm, but sometimes rain or snow are taken in to account as part of the process.
Names are selected from a shortlist of suggestions from the public in the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands.
Amy was selected for ‘A’ as it was the most popular female name suggested to the Met Office.
But there were more personal reasons behind some of the names chosen, such as Fionnuala which was suggested by someone who said “My daughter’s name… Good strong name! What you’d expect from a storm.”
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