The Met Office and the Met Eireann have released their name list for the 2018-19 season.

https://twitter.com/metoffice/status/1039649538028359682

Personally I hope this year they keep to one system and don't combine the storms named by other European met agencies, as that made it an absolute confusing fiasco last year.

Problem is that there is nothing stopping an European met agency naming a low pressure system before the UK or Irish Met Offices. The French did it with Storm David and that had a greater impact on us than it did on them. 

Might get the first named storm as early as next week, depending on how (by then ex-hurricane) Helene behaves - but she'll have a name and sex change to Ali if that's the case.

Can we blame the Muslims?

Germans seem to have their own system as well. They even name anticyclones.

Looks like Helene will continue to be called Helene as Ophelia was last year. May even hit as a proper tropical system as Q mentions in other thread

That's fine, but we don't need to keep the same name. If you look back through a lot of historic windstorms in Europe, they've been given different names in different countries.

Apart from ex-tropical systems which keep their NHC names, the UK should stick to it's own list of names and France, Portugal et al should stick to theirs etc. If it will also be notable in the UK, then I see no reason why the UK shouldn't name it as per our suystem too. It makes it much easier to follow that way. Either that or develop a Europe-wide scheme.

Anyway, it's definitely looking like the first storm of this season will be an ex-hurricane, and could very well be about as to a tropical feature as the UK can get.

It could be an interesting week to come. Could ex-Hurricane Helene on Monday night-Tuesday potentially followed by a possible Storm Ali on Thursday/Friday? The models look pretty exciting for fans of stormy weather.

But are we going to get any useful rain out of these systems in southern England or will it just be wind?

While ex-Helene will give me nothing but a bit of hair dryer-type breeze, I think it's what will follow later on in the week and weekend that will be of more notice. GFS hanging onto the idea of a rapidly developing mid-country low over the weekend, but for now UKMO & ECM aren't showing any interest at all - thus highlighting model diversity/uncertainty at that range.

To be honest, it's all too soon for all this Autumn crap, there's at least 7 months to put up with that!

Storm Ali has been named and is expected to hit on Wednesday. The Met Office have issued amber and yellow warnings across Scotland for wind.

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/warnings#?date=2018-09-19

https://twitter.com/bbcweather/status/1041961884004634625

Total non event here. Hardly any rain as well.

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/maps/GFSOPUK12_129_9.png 

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/maps/GFSOPUK12_120_19.png 

This occurs on the 23rd Sept which is the day before full moon and just after equinox. Not quite the spring tide but not far off. And at the moment we’re looking at deep low pressure following several days of strong westerly fetch and a northerly gale through the North Sea.

The Northerlies along the East coast will be persistent above 50kt for several hours too.

Worth keeping an eye on. Much can and probably will change in the models before then.

Blimey we're already discussing the second named storm of the season before the first has even arrived. The Atlantic must be really ramping up!

We were inside the yellow warning area for wind last night and part of today, what we got was a very pleasant warm breeze and some very welcome sunshine.

Interesting and poetic name. Roughly means 'sorrow' in English.  

With ECM jumping ship on the 12z set, a blend of that and GFS for this coming Sunday now equals one of the most severe windstorms I've ever experienced down here in any month, let alone September when the trees are largely in full leaf.

Concerning, to say the least .

I’d like only be worried if the models still show the same thing in two or three days.

glad I’m flying back up there on Thursday and not tomorrow! Had enough of hairy landings on prop planes.... 

Speaking of wind, nothing else has got close to freaking me out than this event: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/binaries/content/assets/mohippo/pdf/i/7/record_wind_speed_-_13_february_1989.pdf...

I was a six year old kid, but I’ll never forget the sound of that wind or the look on my dads face!

The GFS 12Z continues the trend of very strong winds with soon-to-be Storm Bronagh. The only difference is it brings her slightly further south, with the centre of the low tracking across central England.

https://nwstatic.co.uk/viewimage.pbx?type=gfs;date=20180918;time=18;ext=114;file=hgt500-1000;sess=e44ba82c08ac744e87c35d1358f21629;

I am too! 

Whats the likelihood of flights being cancelled?

I have experienced turbulence before but never attempted to land in 70 mph + winds.

I’ll expect a very bumpy landing regardless... I didn’t usually think flights tended to be cancelled in high winds.

Gulp.