{"id":805438,"date":"2026-10-17T10:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T10:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/805438\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T10:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T10:02:12","slug":"why-hasnt-the-uk-had-any-named-storms-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/805438\/","title":{"rendered":"Why hasn&#8217;t the UK had any named storms yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Storms are most often named when potentially damaging winds are forecast, but can also be named for flooding rain or disruptive snow. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They were first named to help bring public attention to episodes of severe weather, to help people prepare to avoid the worst impacts by planning ahead. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Europe, there are five storm naming groups created from the meteorological agencies based in a similar geographic location.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The UK, Ireland, and the Netherlands form the western storm-naming group which started naming storms in 2015. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Weather systems are named by the the UK&#8217;s Met Office, Ireland&#8217;s Met \u00c9ireann and Netherland&#8217;s KNMI based on expected weather impacts as well as how likely those  are. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Storms are most often named when potentially damaging winds are forecast, but can also be named for flooding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-805438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}