"Last winter was a very quiet one weather-wise and we only worked our way through five named storms, from Angus to Ewan. While it is too early to say whether the coming winter will be a stormy one or a quiet one we are prepared with a whole new set of 21 names for whatever nature may throw at us. "As before Met Éireann forecasters will work in close co-operation with our colleagues from the UK Met Office to keep all the peoples of these islands warned of impending severe weather."Storms are normally handed a unique name when it is decided that they have the potential to cause medium to high impact in the UK and/or Ireland which results in a yellow, orange or red weather warning status from Met Éireann. In order to comply with international storm-naming conventions, they do not include names beginning with Q, U, X, Y, and Z. Here are this year's names: https://twitter.com/metoffice/status/905430398926278656
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