That is incredible viewing KevBrads. 

Icon 18z isn’t giving us much wind on Sunday though. The deepening seems to depend on latitude: the more north the depression is on Sunday, the more it deepens. The weaker options all have the centre going up the channel.

Here we go with more confusion. The Portuguese Met Office have named a low will affect the Azores, Diana. This is likely to affect the UK as Met Office press release says

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/news/releases/2018/cold-gives-way-to-rain-and-gales

Deputy Chief Meteorologist, Dan Harris said: “It now looks very likely that we will see a major change in the UK’s weather early in the week ahead. We expect spells of wet and windy weather to sweep across the UK from the southwest from Tuesday, although at the moment there is uncertainty around the timing and the focus for the heaviest rain and strong winds by Wednesday as Storm Diana approaches our shores."

The Met Office has Deirdre to be used for the next named storm on their list for 2018-19 but here they are using Diana.

The current system is a clusterfuck 

Naming

Aids

Further

Understanding?

It wouldn't surprise me of course, if Met Eireann beats them to it though, as has tended to be the case for most of the time during the last year or so.

So what happens to the name Deirdre?

Diana comes after Deirdre in alphabetical order, so the next storm assuming there is another one this season and if the Met Office does actually get the chance to name it, it has to be Erik? Assuming they even bother to name it at that 

If you are confused then welcome to the cockeyed world of storm naming.

Don’t get me started 😤

As far as I know, Storm Diana was named by the Portoguese service using their own system which is completely separate from our own joint Met Office/Met Eireann system. Nevertheless, the fact that this storm has already been named by the Portoguese service means that it can't then be renamed by either the UK Met Office or Met Eireann. This means that the next named storm on our system will still be Storm Dierdre as far as I know.

To me, this is another good example of why there should be a single European system for naming these storms instead of the rather disjointed state of affairs which we have just now with a number of different systems in place which are run by a number of different countries, and that was something which I even brought up last year on this forum at around this time.

So the Portuguese have named it because it travelled slightly close to the Azores? Now the UK (which will be affected much more severely I would imagine) will be stuck with the name solely because the Met Office daren't rename a system that's already been named by another Met agency? This system is a joke.

I've said repeatedly, either rename storms according to the UK listing, or develop a Europe-wide naming scheme!

Exactly, I couldn't agree with you more.

I just can't understand how they've made such a fiasco out of something that is so simple and straight-forward on paper. Even we struggle to understand it and we're the weather enthusiasts... the public, who this was really designed for, won't have a chance.

From Met Office

The Portuguese met service @ipma_pt have named an area of low pressure in the Atlantic, Storm Etienne. Whilst it is going to weaken before it reaches the UK, it will still bring some wet weather with hill snow for the highest ground of Wales and England

https://twitter.com/metoffice/status/1069685200789983234

FARCE!!!!!!