Well, alright then.
There are plenty of things you shouldn’t name a storm.
‘In a tea-cup,’ ‘Voldemort,’ and ‘Apocalypse’ are just a few that have already been banned due to their inappropriate names.
It’s also bad practice to rename a storm after another particularly bad storm out of respect to the victims.
However, there is another storm name that has been banned in Ireland for being too “cliché-Irish” – and that’s storm Patrick.
Emails between the Met offices in Ireland and the UK show that storm Patrick will never exist because the name is too Irish.
The name is apparently too “closely associated with a specific date, March 17th” so for that reason it should not be used.
This particular email suggested using Peter or Paul instead for a ‘P’ named storm.
Storms that originate in Ireland and the UK are generally named by these respective Met offices.
The names follow the alphabet and alternate between traditional male and female names excluding ones that begin with ‘Q’, ‘U’, ‘X’, ‘Y’, and ‘Z’.
Apparently, those letters are too difficult to think up various names for.
Storm Ophelia, which battered Ireland for the majority of Monday, was named by Met offices in the States.
The ex-Hurricane claimed three lives and left hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses without power.
