On Thursday, September 24, 2015 at 1:26:18 AM UTC+1, Tudor Hughes wrote:

What's wrong with the old system (Low L, High D etc) and why was it dropped? Practically anything that had a couple of closed isobars was given a letter. I think Low S was reserved for the semi-permanent heat Low over Spain in summer. A simple and useful system for tracing movement and development.
The new system,apparently only awards names to "significant" storms.. What are the names going to be? Peoples's names? Wild animals? Elements of the Periodic Table? Stops on the Bakerloo Line? All a bit silly even though the Germans have been doing it for some time, to my mild amusement.


Of course the biggest of all get their own names anyway. The October 1987 'hurricane', the Burn's Night storm, the Boxing day storm and so on

Col