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The Met Office wants your help to name the biggest storms in the UK

Published 12:37 8 Sept 2015 BST

Kevin Beirne
The Met Office wants your help to name the biggest storms in the UK

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For too long Britain has been ravaged by storms too cowardly to name themselves.

Finally, the Met Office has decided to team up with Ireland's Met Éireann to start naming the storms that hit Britain and Ireland as an attempt to raise awareness about dangerous weather events. But naming things is hard, so they've asked the public to help them out a bit by tweeting using the hashtag #nameourstorms. Here are some of our favourite responses so far: https://twitter.com/WillBlackWriter/status/641154931819454465 https://twitter.com/AnthonyCDavison/status/641184019644850176 https://twitter.com/danny_oddie/status/641070835118252032 https://twitter.com/BristOliver/status/641138462838665216 https://twitter.com/zoemelarkey/status/641111011144167424 Meanwhile, some people saw this as a chance to promote their own personal brand... https://twitter.com/kuuleme69/status/641090391865819136 https://twitter.com/Sophieee_Maeee/status/641177375800225792

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The Met Office wants your help to name the biggest storms in the UK