This season’s storm names are in, and they again pay tribute to some legends of the weather world. On Thursday (29 August), the UK’s Met Office, Ireland’s Met Éirean and Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) released their list of names for the 2024/25 season. The Met Office has taken the opportunity to honour three significant people from its 170-year history: World War Two meteorologist Group Captain James Stagg, maths genius Lewis Fry Richardson and computer pioneer Mavis Hinds. “This is the tenth year of us naming storms and we do it because it works,” says Met Office head of s…