Humorous and unusual storm names suggested by public revealed
Includes names like Stormy McStormFace and Dame Judi Drench
More than 27,000 storm names have been suggested by the public to the Met Office, including comedic and unusual ones such as Stormy McStormFace, and Dame Judi Drench.
A member of the public humorously proposed the name Storm Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, named after the Welsh village with the longest name in the UK.
Other suggestions included creative puns like Austin Power-cutter, Bruce Spring Storm, David Blowy, Keir Stormer, and Elon Gust.
In addition, environmental messages were also prominent in the suggestions, with names like Oily McOilFace, Emissions Impossible, BPocalypse, Shell-shocked, and Exxonstentialthreat focusing on climate concerns.
For the 2025/2026 storm season, the Met Office, alongside Met Eireann and KNMI, received over 50,000 submissions but narrowed down the list to 21 names: Amy, Bram, Chandra, Dave, Eddie, Fionnuala, Gerard, Hannah, Isla, Janna, Kasia, Lilith, Marty, Nico, Oscar, Patrick, Ruby, Stevie, Tadhg, Violet, and Wubbo—all of which were public submissions.
The Met Office clarified that storms are named when they are predicted to have a 'medium' or 'high' impact on the UK, Ireland, or the Netherlands to enhance public safety and awareness.
A Met Office spokesperson explained: "We love the range of names submitted and getting more people engaged in choosing names helps awareness. Some of the names are really clever and funny and we enjoy seeing them suggested. However, we couldn't ever use comedy names for our storms, because at the heart of it, naming storms has an important safety purpose."