What's in a name?
Storms may no longer have female names, as the UK Met office investigates whether people take male names more seriously.
Met Eireann's UK counterpart is looking into whether there's a link between storms with a female name and a higher death toll, according to the Daily Telegraph.
In 2014 Researchers at the University of Illinois analysed 60 years of data and found that giving a storm a female name could nearly triple its death toll, but some scientists believe it's just a coincidence.
For the past four years, Met Eireann has teamed up with the UK Met Office to name the storms that would effect both regions.
Alan O'Reilly from Carlow Weather says 'I would have liked to have thought that the weather forecast and the impact of the storm would be what people would take seriously. I am surprised'
