Stormnamen 2026/27

1st of September each year since 2015 [2021 -- 2022 -- 2023 -- 2024 -- 2025] Met Éireann [RTE], Met Office UK [BBC] and Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut [KNMI] go handen over de oceaan to name the coming Winter's storms together. Makes sense: we all get largely the same weather; although KNMI might feel the need to name an event [I dunno: Siberian blizzard?] which doesn't merit even a yellow warning for us. But that storm is [✓] off the list. And we recognise that no man island is an island and we'll retain the same names for, say, the tail-end of American hurricanes. Last year, for example, we interpolated Tempestade Claudia which rushed up from Iberia. In all we got through Amy (Oct), Claudia (Nov ES/PT), Bram (Dec), Chandra (Jan), Dave (Apr).That short stack is typical. In Sept 2023, I maintained that there was no way we were going to get as far as Storm Jocelyn [Bell-Burnell]. But !bzzzt! wrong: we were hammered by Isha and Jocelyn back-to-back in mid-Jan 2024. So…