Met Office and Met Éireann established a partnership to implement a storm naming system, with Austen noted as the first director.

The entities involved

• Met Office →

  United Kingdom's national weather service

  • Met Office forecasts a heatwave for Worcestershire.Mon 12:58
  • The Met Office provided a weather outlook for England, predicting high warmth and temperatures climbing into the 30s for several regions.Mon 10:33
• Met Éireann →

  meteorological service of Ireland

  • Met Éireann issued weather warnings for Ireland on May 28, 2026.Sat 18:58
  • Maynooth University, Met Éireann, and Teagasc collaborated on a research study starting September 1, 2026.Wed 12:03

Related events

• Met Office has collaborated with Aardman to work on the naming of storms.Aug 19
• Met Éireann published flood maps for the South East and pushed for improvements in flood risk identification.Sep 9
• Met Office forecasts heatwave conditions in South England and coordinates storm naming with Dutch and Irish equivalents.Sep 5