The Met Eireann have now named Saturday's low pressure system as Storm Brian. Most likely it will be worse for Ireland again, but yellow warnings are in force for the UK, which suggest 50mph gusts on Saturday afternoon for southern and central areas.

https://twitter.com/metoffice/status/920995899320553472

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God I really hate the concept of naming extratropical storms. There was a more enlightened era when only storms of a tropical nature were named. /rant

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When I think of the name 'Brian', a portly, genteel, pipe 'n slippers type of guy springs to mind, which is how I'll be viewing this 'storm' also. 

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God I really hate the concept of naming extratropical storms. There was a more enlightened era when only storms of a tropical nature were named. /rant

Isn't 'Brian' just a north Atlantic depression ?

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Well he's not the messiah.......he's a very naughty boy!!!

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Should be named for this site  "Storm Brian TWO"..... 

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Isn't 'Brian' just a north Atlantic depression ?

The depression originated in the Bermuda area where a sub-tropical disturbance had developed in the last few days so technically ‘Brian’ is ex-tropical in nature, but not having had an NHC name it is eligible to be allocated one by Met Éireann (and by default UKMO according to the collaborative arrangement with these silly naming things).

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When I think of the name 'Brian', a portly, genteel, pipe 'n slippers type of guy springs to mind, which is how I'll be viewing this 'storm' also. 

 

I think of him as this guy :-

 

 

... but then that's probably to  do with my age

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This is Brian.

 

The depression originated in the Bermuda area where a sub-tropical disturbance had developed in the last few days so technically ‘Brian’ is ex-tropical in nature, but not having had an NHC name it is eligible to be allocated one by Met Éireann (and by default UKMO according to the collaborative arrangement with these silly naming things).

Its just stupid. We should only name tropical systems, not Atlantic depressions. 

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God I really hate the concept of naming extratropical storms. There was a more enlightened era when only storms of a tropical nature were named. /rant

Which includes, I think, 'tropical-like' depressions?

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The depression originated in the Bermuda area where a sub-tropical disturbance had developed in the last few days so technically ‘Brian’ is ex-tropical in nature, but not having had an NHC name it is eligible to be allocated one by Met Éireann (and by default UKMO according to the collaborative arrangement with these silly naming things).

Im not worried that the sequence runs Aileen - Ophelia - Brian. The average Jack or Jill  can hang on to a name more easily than a date or a meteorological descriptor, so by the end of the season (and maybe beyond) they'll remember that there were two distinct storms not just that mid-October was a bit rough. Who knows, Ophelia being out of sequence might even prompt the memory that it was an ex-hurricane.

Good for public awareness even if the purists on this forum hate using names.

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Brian.

The storm they called Brian.

And it grew

Grew, grew and grew

Grew up to be.

Yes it grew up to beeeeee......

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A storm in a tea cup?

I think for 50-70mph gusts, gales should suffice - a typical depression with gales, as one would expect in autumn and winter.

Named storms should be reserved for strengths >70/80mph. 

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I tend to agree the revised naming rules are rather daft and confusing. Who made this decision? The BBC probably had some influence as the nanny state.
Reserving naming for ex hurricanes gives them more of a sense of categorical importance.
What next... names for thunderstorms? breezy days? Ground Frosts?

I tend to agree the revised naming rules are rather daft and confusing. Who made this decision? The BBC probably had some influence as the nanny state.
Reserving naming for ex hurricanes gives them more of a sense of categorical importance.
What next... names for thunderstorms? breezy days? Ground Frosts?

Thor, Gail and Jack respectively. Job done. 

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Agree with Nordic if they are going to do it then it should be reserved for storms of that magnitude when they hit our shores.

Meanwhile storm Brian Gaze barrels across the Atlantic and doubt if anyone is going to huncker down for this one. Some seaside resorts exposed to the spring tides may have some scenes for a while though.

https://www.met.ie/nationalwarnings/default.asp

Met Eireann now have an orange alert out for Saturday, mainly for Western and Southern Irish coasts. Presumably, similar conditions for Southern and Western parts of the UK. Not quite as bad as Monday but gusts up to 130KPH will be nasty enough.

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Well expecting 35-40mph gusts down here, so well in the range for towing the Caravan. So no delayed start to holiday for me. Kent to Suffolk tomorrow morning

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I tend to agree the revised naming rules are rather daft and confusing. Who made this decision? The BBC probably had some influence as the nanny state.
Reserving naming for ex hurricanes gives them more of a sense of categorical importance.
What next... names for thunderstorms? breezy days? Ground Frosts?

If you go back to the start of the thread and read the initial post you will see that Met Eireann named the storm not the Met Office. The convention is that a storm is named only when at least an amber (orange in the case of Ireland) warning is issued.

The Met Office made it very clear in a press release yesterday that they currently have no intention of issuing an amber warning. So from a purely UK perspective this storm would not have been named. It is only because the system works in collaboration with Ireland that we have storm Brian. The winds across Southern Ireland are expected to be much stronger than in the U.K.