Storm Eunice hits the UK's South West. Meanwhile Storm Dudley rampages through the Midlands. What if they meet? Storm Dudnice? Presumably Dudley has alphabetical priority so move over, Eun; your time will come.
I may be the only human on the planet (as opposed to those on the Moon or Mars) who thinks the whole storm naming thing is ridiculous and patronising. Are we so stupid we need everything dumbed down? If the storms keep coming two at a time we may reach Zak by Christmas. Actually that can't happen as there are no Zs in the storm alphabet. Or Ys, so it'll be Willemien - remember the Dutch participate in our naming system. Anyone know why the French don't?
Yep, I do. European nations are grouped for storm naming purposes:
Western Group (United Kingdom, Ireland, and the Netherlands)
South-western Group (France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium and Luxembourg)
Eastern Mediterranean Group (Greece, Israel and Cyprus)
Central Mediterranean Group (Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Malta)
So far we are winning; we're up to Eunice, the Spanish only Blas, the Greeks Elpis (so level with us - come on us Brits!), the others only Apollo (which I thought was Greek so seems like an interloper). If you don't live in Europe, look up your own; I don't care.
I feel I've gone on for too long about this nonsense. Indeed, you may not have got this far; don't blame you.
