So it seems this weekend's low to affect the UK will be using the name "Jorge" assigned by the Spanish Met Office.
While that will not help our cause when it comes to UK storm naming, it actually does make sense in a backwards kind of way. It's actually looking like a fairly typical Atlantic low for the UK and thus probably wouldn't warrant the Ellie name but it may bring weather-related impacts to Spain and France which are not as used to that kind of thing, so it seems the Met Office are "borrowing" the Jorge name while they are at it.
Having studied the most likely path of Storm Jorge, it would appear as though it's centre is likely to be over or just the north of Scotland. That is obviously quite a long way away from Spain and so, the only reason which I can think of as to why it is the Spanish Met service rather than either the UK Met Office or Met Eireann who have named this storm can only be down to the fact that there must be some sort of trailing weather front associated with that particular system, which is likely to cause enough of an impact in that part of world to warrant that particular storm being officially named.
That must obviously be quite a big impact as well since I would imagine that there would need to be the Spanish equivalent of an amber/orange warning in place somewhere in Spain as a result of that, in order to warrant that system actually being named by the Spanish Met service.
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27 February 2020 17:50:49
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The north of Edinburgh, usually always missing out on snow events which occur not just within the rest of Scotland or the UK, but also within the rest of Edinburgh.