ID of the storm: Met Office invites public to name severe weather systems
by Caroline Davies from on (#KQRX)
Public asked to submit names for worst storms as British and Irish meteorologists aim to raise awareness with practice long-established in US
Britain's storms may lack the ferocity and intensity of the most devastating of Atlantic hurricanes. But no longer will they be nameless.
From this autumn, forecasters will be personalising the most severe weather for the first time in UK meteorological history by naming the biggest, windiest and wettest gales in the hope of giving urgent warnings extra oomph.
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