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The UK Met Office has chosen 21 names for upcoming autumn and winter storms after a public appeal for suggestions. There’s a name for each letter of the alphabet, but in line with the US convention, the less common letters Q, U, X, Y and Z have been left out. 
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Whether you get to enjoy Indian summer weather or some bleak, drizzly days in your area, the September equinox brought the intermezzo between summer and winter.
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As usual, NameDropper swallowed the thesaurus. (Miaow, Clare!) But there's also some inspiration for colour names, tree names and weather names.
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Welcome to October! Let's talk Joaquin, Sander, Belhonor, and all sorts of name news from the past week.
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We appreciate you too, Abby!
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For decades tropical storms which hit land in the USA or Asia have been given popular names. Now the Met Office wants us to follow suit in the UK. They believe the naming of storms which may hit our shores will help raise public awareness of severe weather events and they want our help to come up with the names.
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Come on folks, let's #nameourstorms !
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In Tinker Bell and the Pixie Hollow Games, Zephyr was a fast flying fairy.
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This name has been on my mind recently as it's I've been looking at the "dozen club" - names given to 12 children in England and Wales. It's a good'un.
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According to officials, the name Odile is retired out of respect for the 11 people who perished in the 2014 Hurricane which slammed across the Baja Peninsula.
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“Summer is a time of spreading warmth and light, while rain washes away … replenishes and brings new life to allow growth and new beginnings,”
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If you’re expecting a baby during the current Snowpocalypse – or are just thinking you might put those snow days to good use in trying for one – you might find baby naming inspiration in one of these snow-themed choices.
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I was watching some girly rom-coms today and one of them was 'When in Rome'. It stars Kristen Bell and Josh Duhamel, but also featured Dax Shepard (pictured above) as one of Beths (Kristen Bell's character) "suitors". Dax plays a narcissistic model named Gale who is magically attracted to Beth when she takes his coin out of a love/wishing fountain. He comes on quite strong when they first meet....
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Gender: Female
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What are your favorite cold-weather names for a boy? Here's a nice wintery and holiday-related list for you!
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Hail and Frost, Robin and Winterhawk, and more. Oh, and I see Quilo on this list. I'd never heard it until a few days ago, when it appeared in a fantasy book I was reading. It's rather fun to say, is it not? Quilo. Quilo.
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I think Nebula is a very out of this world sci-fi hippie name and I like it a lot for that.
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Nellie for short?
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Wicahpi and Wakinyan are a couple of eye-catching names I spotted on some recent SSA baby name lists. They’re both Lakota words:
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An Atlantic-Pacific crossover hurricane is one that developed in the Atlantic Ocean and moved into the Pacific Ocean (or, more rarely, the other way around) without dissipating/re-developing. There…
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Picken Out Baby Names A couple of years ago the blog featured celebrity parents Liam Picken, an AFL footballer, and his partner Annie Nolan, who had just had twin girls, Delphi and Cheska, sisters ...
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Buran was the name of Russia's space shuttle program and was also the name of the shuttle itself.
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Interesting weather/wintry name.
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What could be cheerier than a sunshine name for a summber baby?
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Apollo, Cyrus, Elio, Idalia, Kalinda, Marisol, Oriana, Phoebus, Samson, Soleil, Sunniva, Sunshine, and Surya. (Oh and don't forget Heulwen!)
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Cette période climatologique, qui s’étend du 11 au 13 mai, s’articule autour de trois saints :
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I gather that you should wait till after the middle of May before planting out your delicate flowers, in case they're caught by a late frost. Here are the names of the saints of this critical period (the original ones, and their replacements).
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My family has a special connection to Venerable Solanus Casey -- a Capuchin who died in 1957. He's been a powerful intercessor for us -- we believe that his intercession miraculously saved my siste...
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I'm pretty excited to have discovered this blog, via...oh, it was on Facebook, but I've forgotten who. Darnit. But thanks to that person!
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Cedar City, Utah resident Kumen Snow Gardner was long prominent in the civic and political affairs of his community, being a farmer, city councilman, two term state representative, one term Mayor of Cedar City.
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Celebrities usually don’t go for those top 10 baby names—and often pick names that the rest of us wouldn’t dare to bestow on our kids. So what was red hot for the A (and B and C) listers in 2014? Take a look at some of the wilder trends in celebrity baby names!
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They strike me as a mixture of cuddly, friendly and young (Barney, Imogen), cuddly, friendly and middle-aged (Nigel, Mary), and "oh bother we'd better reflect British diversity" (Clodagh, Tegan). I like the list but if anything it would make me take the storms less seriously: would Barney and Desmond really blow a tree onto your roof?