‘Storm Jocelyn’ named after Quaker
For the 2023-24 season, the Met Office began naming a number of storms after prominent scientists, meteorologists and others ‘who work to keep people safe in times of severe weather’.
by Rebecca Hardy
2nd February 2024
The bad weather that hit UK shores last week was named ‘Storm Jocelyn’ in honour of Quaker Jocelyn Bell Burnell.
For the 2023-24 season, the Met Office began naming a number of storms after prominent scientists, meteorologists and others ‘who work to keep people safe in times of severe weather’. Jocelyn discovered pulsars as a PhD student in 1967, for which her male PhD supervisor was awarded the Nobel prize for physics.
When it was revealed that a storm would take her name, she said: ‘I am delighted to feature in this distinguished list celebrating science and hope that if a potential Storm Jocelyn happens, it may be a useful stirring-up rather than a destructive event.’
