Met Éireann, along with the national weather services of the UK and the Netherlands, has released the list of new storm names for the 2024/2025 storm season, which starts on Sunday.
Each of the three meteorological services has contributed seven names to this season's list.
Met Éireann’s contributions have been taken from a list of more than 500 suggestions submitted by primary school children participating in the ESB Science Blast last February.
They are Conall, Darragh, Hugo, Izzy, Naoise, Poppy and Vivienne.
The other names are: Ashley, Bert, Éowyn, Floris, Gerben, James, Kayleigh, Lewis, Mavis, Otje, Rafi, Sayuri, Tilly and Wren.
Letters Q, U, X, Y, Z are not included, which is in line with the US National Hurricane Centre naming convention.
"Our key priority is to help protect life and property from extreme weather," Eoin Sherlock, Head of Forecasting Division in Met Éireann, said, adding that "people are more likely to remember and respond to warnings when storms are named".
Severe weather events are becoming more frequent and more intense across the world as a result of climate change.
"Now more than ever, it is crucial for younger generations to understand these risks so that they can safeguard their future by driving societal change, and their involvement in the names selection this year is proof of Met Éireann’s commitment to support their weather and climate awareness," Mr Sherlock said.
Storms are named when they could cause 'medium' or 'high' impacts in one of the three partner countries, which enables more coordination in how services respond to the events.
When a storm is forecast, the national weather service likely to be most directly impacted names it.
Since 2015, Met Éireann and the UK Met Office have been working together on the naming programme and were joined by the Netherlands in 2019.
Following Storm Babet "97% of people within the amber and red warning areas were aware of the warnings and 89% of them took action as a result," UK Met Office Head of Situational Awareness Will Lang said.
Other national meteorological service groups in the US and Europe also name storms, and all services use the name once it has been given.
This includes hurricanes which had major impacts in Ireland when they crossed the Atlantic, even though they had lost much of their force, such as Charley (25 August 1986) and Ophelia (16 October 2017).
