I have another bit of advice for the metoffice regarding their warnings. I think they should introduce a 4th warning that sits between Yellow and Amber. I don't know if its just me, but if there are more than 17 snow flakes falling a yellow warning will be issued. I think we should have 4 warnings, Yellow, orange, red and purple. With the new orange sitting between the old yellow and orange.

And I hope they drop it as it is becoming confusing. By the end of the British winter there will probably have been so many that no one will be able to remember them all.

People really are thinking these named storms are hurricanes and we have never had them before. As Dew says why not name fogs, severe frosts, freezing rain, blizzards etc.

Nick

By doing this they've either advertently or inadvertently introduced new keywords on the digital channels. As they are responsible for issuing the currency they're in the prime position to profit from it. 

Not sure of the source, but a suggestion that this has been brought about by the marketing men for the Met Office trying to raise its profile after it lost the BBC contract.

There was a lot of mickey taking on the Chris Moyles show this morning about the names. In particular he is waiting for Storm Steve to arrive.

Does it really matter??

The strength of the wind will still be the same

I still think it's stupid, and my biggest issue is consistency. Already we've had ex TS Kate that morphed into Abigail that no doubt went on to be Storm Vladimir once it moved into European airspace. You can't give a system a new name depending on where it is.

I've had several enquiries about Hurricane Barney on my forecast page - bloody annoying and unnecessarily confusing. Someone is making money no doubt but for people trying to inject some credence into this industry it's put us back years IMO 🙄

Look at this for a forecast, since this naming thing has started.
This is a normal late November gale.

I hope there are enough letters in the Alphabet to see us through winter.

The passage of Storm Clodagh to the north of Ireland will bring very strong west to southwesterly winds tomorrow morning and very strong west to northwesterly winds tomorrow afternoon. Storm Clodagh will also be accompanied by showers or longer spells of showery rain through the day. A cold day with highest temperatures of 8 to 12 degrees.

Bloody hell?????.

Best stay indoors tomorrow,what with storm clodagh knocking around,causing havoc.

They ought to use stronger definition words as fed up with depressions already....

Metoffice hasn't named this depression (although the irish met has). Well, I hate to say I told you so (actually I absolutely love being right); but I told you so! 

This scheme was doomed from the start. 

Well just wait until the PC brigade get their teeth into this.

I look forward to 'Abdul' 'Delroy' and 'Shaznay' next winter. Oh and maybe 'Oy Vey' for good measure.

P.S. FWIW, I personally think 'Clodagh' is sexist and racist.

And Desmond too as implies some black T.V comedy character or butler

Desmond's centre didn't even come anywhere near the UK. It's not like the Burns Day storm nor October 87. They were your classic vicious lows that tracked across the UK. 

The problem is a stationary front and prolonged tight pressure gradient. Look at the latest 18z FAX chart.

Can we keep the climate change tin foil hat nonsense out of this thread please! If you like that sort of stuff, the 'usual suspects' make a new thread everyday in the climate forum.

Anyway on topic, storm 'desmond' is yet another failure of the naming system. The centre of the storm passed nowhere near the UK; in fact 

some of the isobars do not complete the full circle without encountering HPs, other Lows and basically the entire northern hemisphere

In other words we can even throw a question mark to whether the bad weather can even be considered part of desmond; a counter argument is that the cold front is very much related to desmond, however it is the cold front not the central circulation causing all the problems.

Storm 'Desmond' is a classic example of how ridiculous this naming thing is. As Kevin and Q have described, the quasi-stationary boundary currently dropping copious amounts of rain in the NW is as connected to the loosely associated parent low as a loose bauble in my loft is to the neighbours Christmas tree.
There's even a video online explaining this - surely if you first issue an explanation of how and when systems will qualify to be named, and then have to explain why the then named storm is nowhere near the main event, something is not right 😉

The other flaw in this system was exposed this year. Abigail was followed by Kate, ex hurricane reminants.

Hurricane reminants that effect the British Isles have always been named after the hurricane itself. Charley, Debbie, Flossie etc. Get a couple of these next Autumn, that will really screw up the naming system.