Which list? Well, the name of storm names for the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands for the 2025/26 season, of course!
Some of them are clearly UK names, some are clearly Irish and some are clearly Dutch, and no-one seems really sure how they are chosen.
Although…
Hmm.
And there has been much comment on that last one: “Wubbo” – which of course, and as you can see, is pronounced “Vuh-boh”.
“I refuse to die in a storm called Wubbo,” stated one person ‘on the socials’, but to the Dutch, Wubbo is a famous name. Remember Wubbo Ockels – the first Dutch astronaut? His journey to space on the Challenger space shuttle (mission STS-61-A) in 1985 was made even more impressive than most, given that he probably had to start from below sea level, being from the Netherlands and all.
Amazing.
Mind you, if they do get through to Wubbo, that’ll be 21 major storms and that would be very bad news for those bits of Europe.
But you’d never rule it out because of Climate Change.
I note that there was no requirement to help us out with the pronunciation of “Dave” or “Eddie”. And I do wonder if Storm Bram (when it comes) will leave a mysterious shipwreck upon the beach at Whitby…
“But, strangest of all, the very instant the shore was touched, an immense dog sprang up on deck from below … and running forward, jumped from the bow on to the sand. Making straight for the steep cliff, where the churchyard hangs over the laneway to the East Pier … it disappeared in the darkness.
Also, please take care on the A171 Guisborough Road, where there are reports of a fallen tree.”