On Thursday the Met Office (and their partners in the Met Éireann which covers the Republic of Ireland) published the list of names to be allocated to the winter storms (wind, rain or snow) based on names suggested by the British and Irish public.
which prompted Larry, the Downing Street cat’s, Twitter page to produce a morphed image of his head getting big with the tagline “Me? A named storm? Just don’t tell @palmerston and @Gladstone!” (who are the cats at the Foreign Office and the Treasury). However, since then, it is possible that number one on that list may be coming sooner than anyone thought as over the next three days, vast parts of the UK are under weather warnings. These are the warnings just for Wales from today (Monday) until Wednesday
Monday: “A spell of very strong westerly winds is likely during Monday morning, probably peaking around or just before the busy travel period”
Tuesday: “Strong winds with gusts of 55-60mph, perhaps reaching 70mph in some places, are possible on Tuesday night into Wednesday morning”
Wednesday: “Strong winds with gusts of 55-60mph, perhaps reaching 70mph in some places, are possible on Tuesday night into Wednesday morning”
And all of this is before Irma crosses the Atlantic