The tradition of naming storms is nothing new in the United States, where it's been done since 1953, but it's only lately caught on in the UK.
It wasn’t until 2014 that the Met Office opted to start issuing male and female names to confirmed storms in a bid to help raise awareness and inform the public of the risks of upcoming bad weather.
Each year, they team up with Ireland's Met Éireann and Holland's KNMI weather service to select each years’ list of names from suggestions submitted by the public.
They are assigned in alphabetical order, but there are no names starting with the letters Q, U, X, Y and Z - meaning there are a total of 21 names picked each year.
Here are all the names for this year. Let's hope we don't make it all the way to Walid...
9. Isha
The name Isha is a gender-neutral moniker of Hindu origin, meaning 'one who protects'. | Canva/Getty Images
10. Jocelyn
The name Jocelyn originated in Germany and simply means 'member of the Gauts tribe' - a North Germanic tribe. | Canva/Getty Images
11. Kathleen
An Irish varient of the the Greek-inspired Catherine, the name Kathleen stands for 'purity'. | Canva/Getty Images
12. Lilian
Lilian is a Hebrew what translates as 'my God is an oath'. It has also been derived from the lily flower, meaning 'innocence and beauty'. | Canva/Getty Images