How did Storm Herminia get its name and what comes next in 2025?
How did Storm Herminia get its name and what comes next in 2025?
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You may have heard (or noticed out the window) that the UK has been getting battered by Storm Herminia. But it’s not actually an officially named storm – or at least, it’s not in the UK. We haven’t skipped over Floris, which is the next storm due alphabetically after the Met Office officially named Storm Eowyn.
![[People view large waves as Storm Eowyn arrives, in Porthcawl, Wales, Britain, January 24, 2025. REUTERS/Toby Melville]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SEI_237184244-e8c5.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
The current weather front was named by Spain’s meteorological office, andso we’ve adopted the moniker as the wind and rain made its way to us, even though the conditions are not strong enough to be classed as a stom in the UK. Official storm names used in the UK are updated annually at the start of the autumn and winter storm season, generally running from early September until late August the following year.
![[Editorial use only. No book cover usage. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Moviestore/REX/Shutterstock (1660309a) The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers, Viggo Mortensen, Aragorn (Character) Miranda Otto, Eowyn (Character) Film and Television]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SEI_236908875-d16b.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
We have used this system since 2015 to make communicating dangers from extreme weather simpler. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. Storm Eowyn, which is thought to have been the strongest storm here for a decade, was the first named storm of 2025 but the fifth named storm of the 2024-25 storm season.
It brought record-breaking gusts of over 100mph in Scotland, while Ireland took an even bigger battering with 114mph recorded. The UK Met Office works with the Irish Met Eireann in Ireland and Dutch weather service KNMI to pick the names, with a mix of popular names from each country.
