Storm names announced for 2019/2020 by the Met Office - did your name make the cut?

Maura, Olivia, Dennis and Gerda could be just some of the storms crossing Greater Manchester over the next year.

The Met Office has today revealed the name of storms for 2019-2020 with almost a name for every letter in the alphabet.

This is the fifth year running that the meteorologist office have allowed the public to help name storms in a bid to raise awareness of the potential impacts of severe weather in Britain and Ireland.

Their campaign, Name our Storms, with Met Éireann - the Irish met service - and KNMI - the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, received thousands of suggestions that were then whittled down to the winning names.

The most popular names were chosen along with names that reflect the three nations' diversity.

While Olivia also remained at the top of the list for baby girls' names for the third year in a row, according to the Office for National Statistics, Kitty, Jan, Willow and Samir also made it into the list for storm names.

A-Z list of names (metoffice.gov.uk)

The full list of storm names for 2019/2020 are:

Atiyah

Brendan

Ciara

Dennis

Ellen

Francis

Gerda

Hugh

Iris

Thunder and lightning over Manchester

Jan

Kitty

Liam

Maura

Noah

Olivia

Piet

Roisin

Samir

Tara

Vince

Willow

There aren't any names beginning with Q, U, X, Y, and Z.

Derrick Ryall, associate director of Public Weather Service at the Met Office said: "We were delighted with the public response to our call for names earlier this year and are really pleased storm naming has been embraced by press, media and public to better communicate the potential impacts of severe weather so people are better prepared, when it matters.

"Now coming into the fifth year of the Name our Storms campaign, we look forward to continuing our successful relationship with Met Éireann, our partner in Ireland and are delighted to welcome our new partners from KNMI."

Evelyn Cusack, head of forecasting at Met Éireann, said:   "The naming of storms by National Met Services as well as colour coding weather warnings provides a clear, authoritative and consistent message to the public and prompts people to take action to prevent harm to themselves or to their property.

"We are overwhelmed with the huge response to our public call for storm names - please don’t be too disappointed if your name hasn’t been used as you will get another chance next year".