Well, considering there's a yellow warning out for rain for much of the southern strip of the UK, and the MetO text forecast for tonight in the SE says, "Potential for a spell of strong winds, perhaps coastal gales", I doubt there'll be much confusion here.

I'd imagine a general shrug from everyone elsewhere, much as we in the south would at a named storm affecting only northernmost Scotland.

Yesterday's Daily Star headline was 'Five Storms before Christmas', and they meant named ones . Better get used to it 😮

That storm isn't expected to affect us here in Edinburgh as far as I know (we have had enough on our plate anyway with Storm Bert) but given that it is the Dutch who have named this one, I would probably expect the Netherlands to have the most impacts from that.

Given that Storm Ashley and Storm Bert were both named by Met Eireann though, that now leaves our own Met Office as the only agency within our naming system to have not named any storms during this season so far which I suppose, is rather unusual.

In the North Sea and onto the Netherlands coastal strip and some way inland Alaro 12z has wind gusts touching 140-150kph.

Hopefully they'll get the hint and spend a couple of hundred quid from the sale of their Bentley on some replacement panels. If not, they've got an eyesore to enjoy!

Elsewhere in the county it's more of the same - the usual rush-hour smash on the M2, flooding on the M26, and flooded train tracks disrupting trains around Tonbridge.

At least unlike Bert this is a more typical "gone in a few hours" type of system... and for once we don't get the worst of it, either, as that's due in the Netherlands later.