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We called it storm Ciara in the UK. I wonder why we don’t unify names.
by marcosscriven 7y ago
We called it storm Ciara in the UK. I wonder why we don’t unify names.
- ysr23 7y agobrexit means brexit /s In seriousness, wasn't Storm Ciara named by Met Éireann ? that was certainly my impression, given that most people in the UK struggled to pronounce it. So there is some unification between The Met offices of Ireland and the UK with regard to naming.
- Freak_NL 7y agoIt would have been called Ciara even if the storm was named by the Met Office. The names are unified and a list is published every September: https://www.countryliving.com/uk/news/a28924357/met-office-storm-names-winter-2019-2020/ https://www.countryliving.com/uk/news/a28924357/met-office-s... > The names are a mix of British, Irish and Dutch monikers.
- lexa1979 7y agot'was called Ciara in Belgium also.
- newqer 7y agoThe Netherlands it was also called Ciara. A few days later Dennis came around the block.
- Freak_NL 7y agoNames are being unified actually. The Dutch meteorological institute now cooperates with the British and Irish institutes for naming via the EUMETNET system. There are now two regions in Europe where names are decided in cooperation: West, and Southwest. West is Ireland, United Kingdom, Netherlands, and Belgium, where storms tend to originate in the West. Southwest is the Iberian peninsula and France. A third region (Southeast) is being set up for the Mediterranean. Every region has its own list of names, but when a storm is first named in one region, the other regions will use that name instead of assigning their own (if the storm crosses regions). This means that everyone called this storm Ciara, except for the Germans. Germany is an exception, and has its own (commercial) naming system at the moment. Source: https://www.knmi.nl/kennis-en-datacentrum/uitleg/naamgeving-van-stormen https://www.knmi.nl/kennis-en-datacentrum/uitleg/naamgeving-... (Dutch)
- dgellow 7y agoThat's fascinating, thanks for sharing
- _glass 7y agogermans sold the naming off to sponsor students. so germany is the outlier here.
- mlang23 7y agoWell, the UK is apparently not very interested in unifying things, nor in being part of the EU...
- louthy 7y agoI wonder why we even name storms in the first place. All it does is feed the 24 hour news monster
- pixxel 7y agoExactly. Fear everything, including the weather.
- rmetzler 7y agoWhy do we name vulnerabilities in software? It’s much easier to talk about it that way.
- feintruled 7y agoThe article linked above explains it https://www.countryliving.com/uk/news/a28924357/met-office-storm-names-winter-2019-2020/ https://www.countryliving.com/uk/news/a28924357/met-office-s... To 'raise awareness' of weather events, as if one might not notice them otherwise. To be less cynical, people might pay more attention to weather warnings if they are named storms? Not sure how long that effect will stick if we have a named storm twice a month! I think you might not be far wrong saying it's about grabbing headlines.
- Al-Khwarizmi 7y agoIn my home it definitely works. We say "Wow, a NAMED storm is coming tomorrow". We say it in a half joking tone, because the naming thing is a bit quirky, but we do pay more attention and are more careful when it's named.
- kalleboo 7y agoIn Japan, the typhoons are just numbered. “Let’s not go out this weekend, Typhoon 12 is supposed to make landfall”