Since 2017, Europe has been divided into five zones, within which the weather services have joined forces to jointly name the selo phenomenon. The names are given from a pre-established list scrupulously respecting the alphabetical order, and an alternation of male and female first names.
A storm can, however, have several names, recalls Météo France: “If France-Spain-Portugal-Belgium-Luxembourg and the Great Britain-Ireland trio work together, Germany and Norway have kept their own naming system”