[ysr23]

brexit means brexit /s

In seriousness, wasn't Storm Ciara named by Met Éireann ? that was certainly my impression, given that most people in the UK struggled to pronounce it. So there is some unification between The Met offices of Ireland and the UK with regard to naming.

[Freak_NL]

It would have been called Ciara even if the storm was named by the Met Office. The names are unified and a list is published every September:

https://www.countryliving.com/uk/news/a28924357/met-office-s...

> The names are a mix of British, Irish and Dutch monikers.