Have you ever wondered why and how storms are named? It may feel like a random process, but storm names follow a strict international system. Naming ...
Australia's climate is changing rapidly due to rising global greenhouse gas emissions. Extreme weather events such as tropical cyclones, east coast low pressure systems, flash floods, droughts, ...
Currently, Kenya and Tanzania are on high alert as Cyclone 'Hidaya' could hit the Coastal regions of the two countries Cyclones, hurricanes, and typhoons are all different names for the same weather ...
Chris Bulmer, the Met Office’s deputy chief forecaster, said: “A deepening area of low pressure – named Storm Goretti by Meteo France – will move across the south of the UK during Thursday and into ...
Hurricane season ends Nov. 30, according to NOAA. Hurricane season began June 1 and ends Nov. 30, and so far this year there have been 13 named storms, beginning with Tropical Storm Andrea in June and ...
Storm names are usually chosen in collaboration with the Met Office, Ireland’s Met Éireann and the Netherlands’ forecaster ...
The name itself doesn’t have a specific meteorological meaning, it is derived from a personal name (most famously associated ...
We name severe cyclones and storms, but not heatwaves or floods. Why? Are there benefits to giving Australia’s climate-fuelled extreme weather a name?