Do you have the perfect storm name? We are asking you to name a storm for the 2025/26 season!
Storm season runs from September through to August, so each summer, Met Éireann, UK Met Office and the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute create a shared list of names, for the new season.
Naming storms is an effective and impactful way of ensuring everyone is alerted to and can prepare for these severe weather events. This year, we are inviting the public to submit name suggestions for storm season 2025-26, along with the reasons why those names should make the list.
Submissions will be considered by Met Éireann,* before a shortlist of names is put forward for discussion with our partners in the UK and the Netherlands. Each of the partner organisations contribute around one third of the names in the final list of 21.
What will the 2025/26 Storm Names be?
Any individual aged over 18, group, or organisation can submit a name to Met Éireann by 1st July 2025 through our online form. Only names submitted through this form will be considered.
On 1st September 2025, the list of Storm Names for the 2025/26 season will be unveiled. Stay tuned to see if your proposal has made the final list!
Please note that when creating our shortlist for Ireland, the following guidelines will apply:
- In line with international storm naming conventions, we don’t use names beginning with Q, U, X, Y and Z,
- All names should be appropriate and respect the diversity of Ireland, as well as the UK and the Netherlands.
- Finally, we try not to repeat names that have already been used for previous storms. Visit our Storm Centre to see past storm names.
Storms are named when they could cause ‘medium’ or ‘high’ impacts in any one of the three partner countries that make up the “western” group of national weather services. This enables consistent and authoritative messaging to the public and other stakeholders to enable them to prepare for and stay safe during potentially severe weather events.
When a storm is forecast, the national weather service that expects the biggest impact from the severe weather to hit its region, or is likely to be first affected by it, names the storm. Currently, storms are named in alphabetical order, so the first storm of the season will always begin with the letter ‘A’. This also means that letters towards the end of the list tend not to be used – the furthest we have got was in 2023/24, when the last storm of the season was Lilian.
Storm naming happens in conjunction with orange/red weather warnings, which could be for wind, rain or snow or a combination of these conditions. Those warnings are, in turn, issued based on a combination of numerical thresholds and the potential impacts foreseen.
Since 2015, Met Éireann and the UK Met Office have been working together on the naming programme and they were joined by the Netherlands’ KNMI in 2019.
To know more about Storm Names, visit our Storm Centre.
*Please note that submitting a name does not guarantee that it will be used in the final listing. If your name is used in the list, this does not mean you will be acknowledged as submitting the name. Any offensive names or submissions will be deleted.