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Why did we start naming extreme weather?
Sunderland Echo
|September 02, 2025
When severe weather sweeps across the UK, it rarely goes unnoticed - and since 2015, the worst of it has often arrived with a name.
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From Storm Ciara in 2020, which brought widespread flooding, to Storm Arwen in 2021, remembered for its destructive winds and mass power cuts, giving storms an identity has become part of how forecasters help the public prepare.
This story is from the September 02, 2025 edition of Sunderland Echo.
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