Could they not just spell it normally?

[SayingwhatIreallythink]

So the next storm is on its way. But really, what is wrong with calling it Debbie or Deborah. Why do they have to make the storm sound chavvy with its Debi spelling?

I want a Stormy Mc Storm Face

I wish they'd agree on the pronunciation though - the BBC produced some really mangled versions of Ciaran.

At least they can't go too far off piste pronouncing Debi.

Why do we even have to name storms in the first place? I mean why can't we just there's a storm coming! I know it's supposed to make them more relatable etc... But it makes sense in large countries like the US where there may be several storms or tornadoes going on at any one time but not here where just one storm generally hits the whole country at a time.

Why can't we have a good old British storm like Trevor or Sharon 😁

It isn't chavvy, don't be such an idiot. It's a woman's name.

Deborah, Debbie, Debi (not a spelling I would automatically use, but never mind) are biblical names, meaning the bee 🐝.

The storms are named by various European countries and will be spelled accordingly. You seem a bit dim.

Clearly we should have Weathexited from Storm naming and all storms should be solid white middle class British names. They should all be Storm Oliver or Harry (at least three each of these) and about six Storm Evies.

The fourth on the list was chosen for Debi Garft, who recently retired as Senior Policy Officer in the Scottish Government Flooding Team. Regina Simmons, team leader for Warning and Informing at Natural Resources Wales’, also finds her first name in the list.
Irish meteorological service Met Éireann contributes to the list too, with names inspired by famous scientists. Jocelyn, for example, was added for famous physicist Dame Jocelyn Bell.

No idea where that article about Italian floods came from or how it attached itself to the paragraph I cut and pasted about storm names!

Another wind-up post. Yawn.

Just wait until there's a Storm Layciee-Maiye-Rhose and you'll see the difference - trampolines and plastic grass flying about everywhere.

Awesome (I don’t think the image is being quoted here!)

A chavvy storm!

Will it be wearing a tracksuit with sliders and a tattooed neck?

I'm quite looking forward to seeing a chav storm, don't know about anyone else. Sounds like my kind of storm.

On a non chav note, it's still early(ish) November and we're on D already. Last winter we had no named storms at all.

It's a collaboration between the UK Met Office, Met Éireann and the Dutch equivalent.

When we did have two named storms earlier in the year, they were named by the Danes and then the French so they didn't count. Fun fact.

Debi is a bit ridiculous for a storm!

Thanks all for educating me. I admit , I did assume it was just short for Deborah, and hadn’t realised that Debi was a name in its own right in other cultures. I read it in the same way you might have a Storm Trev or Storm Kev, so it seemed a bit too casual.

Where I live we say ‘gerrit’ for ‘get it’, so ‘gerrit put away’.

My neighbour has had her roof damaged by storm Babet and according to her home insurers there hasn’t been any storms, so they’re not paying out. Twats.

Well she would have extremely good grounds for contesting that!

Debi is not the Irish form of Deborah, so that poster is not right.

2013/2014 we got to Gerhard
2014/2015 (couldn't find!)
2015/2016 we got to Katie
2016/2017 we got to Ewan
2017/2018 we got to Hector
2018/2019 and we got to Hannah
2019/2020 we got to Francis
2020/2021 we got to Evert
2021/2022 we got to Franklin
2022/2023 we got to Betty

Arguably, last year was the outlier for recent years.

Yes it was extraordinary

Though interesting about 2013-14. I don't remember any names. I do remember there designated storms over a ten day period in the first half of February culminating in what we just called the Valentine's Day Storm. That was very memorable

It wasn’t what they class as storms apparently. I don’t know if they’re contesting it. I’ll ask if I see them.

A chavvy storm? Only on Mumsnet…

Must be the "rah" at the end... Storm DeboRAAARGH!! ⚡⚡⚡