List of historical European windstorm names
The List of historical European windstorm names includes notable extratropical cyclones that have impacted Europe and were assigned names by national meteorological services or academic institutions, in association with EUMETNET standards.
Background and History
European windstorm names are used by national meteorological services in Europe to identify high-impact extratropical cyclones. Unlike the naming of tropical cyclones, which is managed globally by the World Meteorological Organization, European windstorm naming is coordinated through several regional groups under the EUMETNET framework.
The practice of naming these storms began formally in the 1950s by the Free University of Berlin. It was not until 2015 that national weather services starting with the Met Office and Met Éireann initiated official public naming schemes to improve disaster communication.
Selection Criteria, Naming Systems and Eligibility
A storms name only makes it on this list if:
- It was officially named by a national weather service of one of the EUMETNET observer groups.
What is not excepted:
- A storm name issued by Free University Berlin, as they name all high and low pressure over the continent, most of whom are not eligible for storm naming criteria
Naming groups
Since 2015, the naming of high-impact windstorms has been coordinated by several regional groups within the EUMETNET framework. Each group maintains its own alphabetical list of names for each season.
| Group Name | Participating Countries/Services | Established |
|---|---|---|
| Western Group | Met Office Met Éireann KNMI |
2015 |
| South-western Group | Météo-France AEMET IPMA RMI MeteoLux |
2017 |
| Northern Group | MET Norway SMHI DMI |
2026 |
| Central Mediterranean Group | Servizio Meteorologico ARSO DHMZ IHMS Met Office Malta |
2021 |
| South-eastern Mediterranean Group | HNMS DoM IMS |
2021 |
Historical Western group names
The following names were used from the lists submitted by the Western group for European windstorm naming.
(United Kingdom, Ireland and Netherlands)
| 2015-16[1] | 2016-17[2] | 2017-18[3] | 2018-19[4] | 2019-20[5] | 2020-21[6] | 2021-22[7] | 2022-23[8] | 2023-24[9] | 2024-25[10] | 2025-26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abigail | Angus | Aileen | Ali | Atiyah | Aiden | Arwen | Antoni | Agnes | Ashley | Amy |
| Barney | Barbara | Brian | Bronagh | Brendan | Bella | Barra | Betty | Babet | Bert | Bram |
| Clodagh | Conor | Caroline | Callum | Ciara | Christoph | Corrie | Ciarán | Conall | Chandra | |
| Desmond | Doris | Dylan | Dierdre | Dennis | Darcy | Dudley | Debi | Darragh | ||
| Eva | Ewan | Eleanor | Erik | Ellen | Evert | Eunice | Elin | Éowyn | ||
| Frank | Fionn | Freya | Francis | Franklin | Fergus | Floris | ||||
| Gertrude | Georgina | Gareth | Gerrit | |||||||
| Henry | Hector | Hannah | Henk | |||||||
| Imogen | Isha | |||||||||
| Jake | Jocelyn | |||||||||
| Katie | Kathleen | |||||||||
| Lilian | ||||||||||
Historical South-western group names
The following names were used from the lists submitted by the South-western group for European windstorm naming.
(France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium and Luxembourg)
| 2017-18[11] | 2018-19[12] | 2019-20[13] | 2020-21[14] | 2021-22[15] | 2022-23[16] | 2023-24[17] | 2024-25[18] | 2025-26[19] | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ana | Adrian | Amélie | Alex | Aurore | Armand | Aline | Aitor | Alice | |
| Bruno | Beatriz | Bernardo | Barbara | Blas | Béatrice | Bernard | Berenice | Benjamin | |
| Carmen | Carlos | Cecilia | Clement | Celia | Cláudio | Celine | Caetano | Claudia | |
| David | Diana | Daniel | Dora | Diego | Denise | Domingos | Dorothea | Davide | |
| Emma | Etienne | Elsa | Ernest | Evelyn | Efraín | Elisa | Enol | Emilia | |
| Felix | Flora | Fabien | Filomena | Fien | Frederico | Floriane | Francis | ||
| Gisele | Gabriel | Gloria | Gaetan | Gérard | Geraldine | Garoe | Goretti | ||
| Hugo | Helena | Hervé | Hortense | Hannelore | Hipolito | Herminia | Harry | ||
| Irene | Isaias | Inès | Ignacio | Isaack | Irene | Ivo | Ingrid | ||
| Julia | Jorge | Justine | Juliette | Juan | Jana | Joseph | |||
| Kyllian | Karine | Karim | Kamiel | Karlotta | Konrad | Kristin | |||
| Laura | Leon | Lola | Larisa | Louis | Laurence | Leonardo | |||
| Miguel | Myriam | Mathis | Monica | Martinho | Marta | ||||
| Norberto | Noa | Nelson | Nuria | Nils | |||||
| Odette | Oscar | Olivia | Olivier | Oriana | |||||
| Patrícia | Pierrick | Pedro | |||||||
| Renata | Regina |
Historical Central Mediterranean group names
The following names were used from the lists submitted by the Central Mediterranean group for European windstorm naming.
(Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Malta)
| 2021-22 | 2022-23[20] | 2023-24 | 2024-25[21] | 2025-26[22] | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apollo | Ana | Alexis | Atena | Alessio | |
| Bianca | Bogdan | Bettina | Boris | Barbara | |
| Ciril | Clio | Ciro | Cassandra | Cassio | |
| Diana | Dino | Dorothea | Dionisio | ||
| Eva | Emil | Elena | |||
| Fobos | Fedra | Felix | |||
| Gaia | Gori | Gabri | |||
| Helios | Hans | ||||
| Ilina | Ines | ||||
| Leon | Lukas | ||||
| Minerva | |||||
| Nino | |||||
| Olga | |||||
| Petar | |||||
| Rea |
Historical Eastern Mediterranean group names
The following names were used from the lists submitted by the Eastern Mediterranean group for European windstorm naming.
(Greece, Israel and Cyprus)
| 2021-22[23] | 2022-23[24] | 2023-24[25] | 2024-25[26] | 2025-26[27] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Athina | Ariel | Avgi | Alexandros | Adel |
| Ballos | Barbara | Bora | Byron | |
| Carmel | Cleon* | Coral | Cornaro | |
| Diomedes | Daniel | |||
| Elpis | Elias | |||
| Filippos | ||||
| Genesis |
Asterisked (*) entities that were named that were not windstorms, as the SE Med group also names non-wind events like heat waves (e.g., Cleon).
Historical Northern group names
The following names were used from the lists submitted by the Northern group for European windstorm naming. Since 2026 the Northern group have been using a unified lists of names, starting with Anna.
(Norway, Denmark and Sweden)
| 2020-2025 | 2026–2030 |
|---|---|
| Didrik (2020)[28] | Anna (2026)[29] |
| Frank (2020)[30] | |
| Gyda (2021)[31] | |
| Malik (2022)[32] | |
| Otto (2023)[33] | |
| Hans (2023)[34] | |
| Pia (2023)[35] | |
| Ingunn (2024)[36] | |
| Rolf (2024)[37] | |
| Jakob (2024)[38] | |
| Johannes (2025)[39] |
See also
- Weather of: 2025
- Tropical cyclones in: 2025, 2026
- Winter of 2025–26 in Great Britain and Ireland
- 2025–26 North American winter
- 2025–26 Asian winter
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