Ha ha, I love it!
It was the Met Office’s decision. Storms are named by the Irish, British and Dutch meteorological services. For those of you who don’t know that it may be fun to learn that meteorology is one of the earth sciences. A fellow student called Diana, a pleasant woman who I did field work and field trips with, went on to become a weather woman after graduation. (Me, I wanted my own research group.)
https://nos.nl/artikel/2488748-eigen-storm-voor-vertrekkend-weerman-gerrit-hiemstra
