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Met Office told to change silly names of storms

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The Meteorological Office is being urged to stop using insensitive names for storms in the UK.


The move follows deaths and damage caused by Storm Bert over the past week.


Weather experts have come under increasing pressure – and not just from the atmosphere – to change the names of storms to reflect the harm they cause.


A spokeswoman for the think-tank Who Came Up With These said: 'Recently we’ve also had Storm Agnes, Gerrit and Debi. Those are names for pet hamsters, not catastrophic weather events.


'We need titles with more gravitas. How about Storm Fury, Storm Rage or Storm My Fence Has Blown Down And I Have No Insurance?'


Who Came Up With These offered a further suggestion: 'The Met Office should consider changing its name to the Meteoro-illogical Office.'


Charli XCX hired by Met Office after brat summer does end

Having declared both the start and the end of brat summer, Charli XCX is set to ditch her music career for a move into full time weather forecasting.


A spokeswoman said 'Charli was inspired by the 1988 song "John Kettley is a weatherman". Did you know that Billie Eilish frequently drills ice cores in Antarctica and her favourite weather presenter is Tomasz Schafernaker. Olivia Rodrigo monitors medium to long term temperature patterns across the globe but prefers Carol Kirkwood. Sabrina Carpenter is a leading El Nino authority and she says she is Michael Fish, all day, every day.'


Charli XCX has been criticised by some for her slapdash approach to Roman numerals. Asked for Charli XCX's opinion of the recently announced Oasis comeback, the spokeswoman said 'Lots of people like Oasis. Maybe just let people enjoy things?'




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