I heard Storm Amy being mentioned about three weeks ago. I googled to find out why it began with A - because I thought it would only begin with A in 2026.
This is what I found...............
But it turns out they start with A in September which is the start of storm season. The names are chosen by The Met Office, Met Eireann (Irish Meteorological Service) and KMNI which is the Netherlands Meteorological Institute. These storms are the ones likely to have medium to high impact on the three countries. Seven choices for names from each country by public suggestion.
Apparently Storm Amy was forecast a few weeks ago but wasn't actually named by the Met Office. It brought strong winds on 14th September to Scotland and the local newspapers called it Storm Amy - but it seems it wasn't strong enough to be officially named.
Here's a link for next year when names for 2026 -27 can be submitted
Meanwhile today is the 29th of the month, St Michael's Day or Michaelmas........ the day with many weather sayings attached.
If there is snow at Christmas that will be a big surprise, but there certainly is a huge crop of acorns this year to fall if it's windy today. The new moon was on the 21st so we should expect eight floods before the end of the winter - oh dear.
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So interesting about the naming of storms, thank you! I'm going to submit some suggestions for next year's naming. Same here with acorns, it's been a super abundant year with plenty still to fall but masses on the ground already. We crunch home through the woods, pigs would have a feast.
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I might think up some weird names to submit too - I expect they've already used popular names.
DeleteAll these acorns etc, it's a good year for nuts. Let us hope these storms fo not wreak too much havoc
ReplyDeleteI hope we never get to storm W this winter
DeleteDefinitely a mast year for acorns - never seen such piles of them at road edges round here. The pigs in the New Forest will be doing the ponies a great service by scoffing as many as they can. Acorns can cause death through Vitamin B deficiency if the ponies eat too many.
ReplyDeleteWhen we were growing up there were no named storms . . . just gales!
Acorns never look very appealing to eat but pigs must find them attractive. I suppose we ought to be grinding them for flour just-in-case
DeleteMuch pannage for the pigs! I didn't know about vitamin B deficiency in ponies.
ReplyDeleteSo many acorns this year, quite painful to walk over!
DeleteI like the naming of storms but like you assumed the season started at the beginning of the year.
ReplyDeleteI also like the informal naming, like the Beast from the East. Brings back memories of a holiday in Edinburgh that didn’t go to plan but was great fun nonetheless. The eerie quiet of the snow filled streets! J’nan
That beast storm was a nasty surprise don't want that again
DeleteNooo, no more floods please…really don’t want to meet storm W!
ReplyDeleteHope for no floods here too. and also hope we never get as far as storm W
DeleteWhen nature gives a good autumn bounty, my mum always said we were in for a bad winter, as nature looks after itself. Time will tell, we not had snow here along the south coast for a few years.
ReplyDeleteSnow at Christmas would be a nasty shock - hopefully unlikely. There were only 6 named storms last winter so we are due for more this year
DeleteI've seen so many acorns on the ground already. The chipmunks and squirrels have been carting them off to their winter homes to store for food. I'm not sure about the whole snow thing. I'm not ready for that yet. Of course, that meant I had to look up the odds for us having a white Christmas. 51-75%. Quite a range lol.
ReplyDeleteI think you are 100% more likely to get snow at Christmas than we are!
DeleteI don't know about acorns but we are prolific in Conkers this year. Alan keeps going out and collecting them, we have bags full now, so I have told him to stop.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I could take a storm called Eddie very seriously!!
I need some conkers to keep away the spiders!
DeleteLots of chestnuts blown off the big tree further up the road from our house after a slightly stormy Saturday night. Thanks for the info about storms-there have been local competitions for children to name the gritters and some very clever names thought up. Catriona
ReplyDeleteShortage of Horse chestnut trees in the village - need to look further afield
DeleteThe acorns are huge and plentiful round here too so looks like snow at Christmas!
ReplyDeleteAlison in Devon x
I hope no snow for Christmas as the Surrey family are coming to stay in Suffolk this year
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