Met Office announces full list of storm names for 2020-21

Summer is coming to an end and the weather will start to become more autumnal soon as the nights begin to draw in.

Following the likes of Ciara, Dennis and Francis earlier this year, a new slate of storm names have been revealed.

First up will be Aiden followed by Bella and then Christoph.

Other names on the list include Heulwen, Klaas and Minnie.

As in previous years, Q, U, X, Y and Z will not be used, to comply with the international storm naming conventions.

Here is the full list of storm names:

- Aiden

- Bella

- Christoph

- Darcy

- Evert

- Fleur

- Gavin

- Heulwen

- Iain

- Julia

- Klaas

- Lilah

- Minnie

- Naia

- Oscar

- Phoebe

- Ravi

- Saidhbhin

- Tobias

- Veronica

- Wilson

The storm names will be used by the Met Office, Met Eireann and KNMI - the national weather forecasting service in the Netherlands.

Storms are also given names by European nations including France, Spain and Portugal in south-west Europe and Sweden, Norway and Denmark in northern Europe.

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Will Lang, head of the national severe weather warning Service at the Met Office, said: ‘We are now entering our sixth year of the Name our Storms campaign and we look forward to working closely with our colleagues in Ireland and the Netherlands once again, continuing to raise awareness of the potential impacts of severe weather in order to keep people across our nations safe.

‘The impacts from Storm Ciara and Dennis earlier this year are still fresh in many people's minds and although it’s too early to anticipate what weather this autumn and winter will bring, we are prepared with a new list of names to help raise awareness of severe weather before it hits.’

It is the sixth year that the Met Office and Met Eireann have run the Name our Storms campaign, which aims to raise awareness of the impact of severe weather before it hits.

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