Oisín, Conor, Ewan and Angus are the only Irish / Gaelic names in the list this year.
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It is the second year of the “name our storms” project by the Met Office and Met Eireann, which takes suggestions from members of the public.
Having been inundated with suggestions past year, the forecasters picked the latest names from the 10,000 entries they had already received.
Last year, the Met Office made the decision to name storms that will hit the United Kingdom in the hope it would help the communicate weather warnings to the public.
Storms are being named when they are deemed to have the potential to cause a substantial impact in the United Kingdom and/or Ireland.
The next phase of the project will run for a year from October 1 and will see some changes, including adding more than one weather type, specifically rain if its impact could lead to flooding.
Derek Ryall, head of public weather services at the Met Office, said: “By naming storms more people were made aware of the approaching threat of severe weather and were able to act on this information”.
However, the storm will still need to be suitably windy. The letters Q, U, X, Y and Z will not be so that naming practices will match the USA system.
Ireland saw plenty of major storms last winter, as storms Gertrude, Henry, and Imogen wreaked havoc in quick successionat the start of 2016.
There are now no severe weather warnings in place in the United Kingdom and the Met Office has not issued any forecasts for storms headed our way so far.
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“The naming helped us to clearly distinguish between them, and delineate their likely impacts”.
