The Meteorological Office is being urged to stop using insensitive names for storms in the UK.
The move follows deaths and damage caused by Storm Bert over the past week.
Weather experts have come under increasing pressure – and not just from the atmosphere – to change the names of storms to reflect the harm they cause.
A spokeswoman for the think-tank Who Came Up With These said: 'Recently we’ve also had Storm Agnes, Gerrit and Debi. Those are names for pet hamsters, not catastrophic weather events.
'We need titles with more gravitas. How about Storm Fury, Storm Rage or Storm My Fence Has Blown Down And I Have No Insurance?'
Who Came Up With These offered a further suggestion: 'The Met Office should consider changing its name to the Meteoro-illogical Office.'
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