A week ago the UK Met Office and Met Éireann (the Met Office for the Republic of Ireland) announced the names of the winter storms for the 2018/2019 season starting off with Ali, then as in the case of the National Hurricane Centre alternating between male and female thereafter with six Irish names and three Welsh names (gathered from suggestions by the public of both countries).
Today, the first of those storms, Ali, has arrived affecting at the moment County Galway on the west coast of Ireland, but affecting the central belt of Scotland later today. Indeed, even here, we have sustained winds of 10mph, gusting to 19mph.
