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Generate names for weather events and phenomena: named hurricanes and winter storms, historic-sounding blizzards and floods, folk names for odd seasons, local winds, and invented weather for fantasy worlds. Useful for fiction, worldbuilding, games, and anyone who wants to name the storm outside.

About weather names

Real weather gets named in a few distinct ways, and each one has its own sound. Tropical systems use rotating alphabetical lists of ordinary given names (Hurricane Ida, Typhoon Haiyan), so a fictional hurricane should sound like a person, not a monster. European forecasters name heat waves after figures from myth (Cerberus, Caronte), and the UK and Ireland name windstorms from a public vote (Storm Babet, Storm Eunice). Before official naming, storms were remembered by the day or the damage: the Children's Blizzard, the Great Gale, the Candlemas Storm, the Year Without a Summer.

Then there is the older folk layer: names for weather that never makes the news. Blackberry Winter is a cold snap in May; a sun shower is the fox's wedding in Japan and the devil beating his wife in the American South; sailors had a name for every dangerous wind from the Mistral to the Williwaw. These are the names that make a fictional world feel lived in.

This list mixes all of those registers with invented weather for fantasy and science fiction: glass rain, the Bleeding Fog, the Wind That Remembers. Pick the style that fits your setting, or combine them: a world can have both an official Winter Storm Gideon and a farmer who calls it the Cattle Killer.

How to choose weather names

  • Match the naming authority to the world. A modern setting names storms with plain first names in alphabetical order; a medieval one names them by feast day, saint, or what they destroyed.
  • Retire a name after a disaster. Real agencies remove names like Katrina and Haiyan from rotation, so a fictional storm that gets mentioned for decades should be the only one with that name.
  • Use folk names for texture, not plot. 'The Onion Snow' or 'the Fox's Wedding' in a character's mouth says more about their upbringing than a paragraph of backstory.
  • Give invented weather a physical rule. 'Glass rain' works because the reader can picture it; name the thing by what it does (drowns, bites, sings) rather than by an abstract mood.
  • For winds, borrow the real pattern: a local name, often a trade or a threat (the Fremantle Doctor, the Barber, the Widowmaker), plus the direction it comes from.

Frequently asked questions

How are real hurricanes and storms named?

The World Meteorological Organization keeps six rotating lists of alphabetical first names for each ocean basin, alternating male and female. Names of especially deadly storms are retired and replaced. Winter storms in the US are named by a private weather company, while the UK, Ireland, and the Netherlands name windstorms jointly from public suggestions.

Are folk weather names like Blackberry Winter real?

Yes. Blackberry Winter, Dogwood Winter, Indian Summer, the Dog Days, and Onion Snow are all traditional names for recurring weather in North America and Britain. Many local winds (Mistral, Sirocco, Chinook, Santa Ana) also have centuries-old names. This generator includes those alongside invented ones.

What makes a good fantasy weather name?

Concreteness. The best invented weather names describe a visible effect (the Red Rain, the Singing Frost) or the damage it does (the Bridge-Breaker Flood). Avoid vague adjectives and keep the grammar plain; 'The Long Dark' lands harder than 'The Eternal Shadow Tempest'.

Can I use these names for a real storm or event?

Official storm names are assigned by meteorological agencies, so you can't name a real hurricane. But people routinely give nicknames to memorable local storms, and event organizers name snow days, storm-watch parties and festival themes freely.

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A: 2 names

  • Ashwinter
  • Atmospheric River Nahele

B: 7 names

  • Blizzard Anselm
  • Blizzard Rosalind
  • Blowing Season
  • Bomb Cyclone Thorne
  • Bomb Cyclone Vesper
  • Bonewind
  • Burning Season

C: 8 names

  • Cold Moon
  • Cold Snap Fimbul
  • Cold Snap Wendigo
  • Cyclone Jarrah
  • Cyclone Lindiwe
  • Cyclone Oswin
  • Cyclone Priyanka
  • Cyclone Tarika

D: 8 names

  • Derecho Juniper
  • Derecho Oakhurst
  • Dragon Weather
  • Dripping Season
  • Drowning Season
  • Dry Turn
  • Duskgale
  • Dust Storm Sekhmet

E: 1 name

  • Emberfall

F: 8 names

  • Firestorm Kindling
  • First Frost
  • First Thaw
  • Flash Flood Event Cassius
  • Flood Moon
  • Fog Month
  • Freezing Season
  • Frost Moon

G: 6 names

  • Gale
  • Gale Hadrian
  • Gale Morwenna
  • Gale Season
  • Ghostrain
  • Glasswind

H: 19 names

  • Hail Month
  • Hailstorm Birgitta
  • Hailstorm Gunther
  • Heat Dome Hephaestus
  • Heat Dome Pyrrha
  • Heat Dome Tantalus
  • Heat Wave Caronte
  • Heat Wave Cerberus
  • Heat Wave Scylla
  • Heat Wave Vulcan
  • Hollowgale
  • Hurricane Casimir
  • Hurricane Delphine
  • Hurricane Imelda
  • Hurricane Marisol
  • Hurricane Odalys
  • Hurricane Rafferty
  • Hurricane Sylvan
  • Hurricane Tobias

I: 5 names

  • Ice Storm Caldwell
  • Ice Storm Evangeline
  • Ice-Out Day
  • Invest 93L
  • Ironrain

K: 1 name

  • Kona Low Makani

L: 3 names

  • Lantern Season
  • Last Freeze
  • Last Snow

M: 6 names

  • Medicane Thalassa
  • Mesoscale Convective System Ridgeback
  • Monsoon Surge Anjali
  • Monsoon Turn
  • Moonfrost
  • Mud Week

N: 3 names

  • Nor'easter Abigail
  • Nor'easter Cormac
  • Nor'easter Priscilla

P: 2 names

  • Polar Vortex Boreas
  • Polar Vortex Skadi

R: 2 names

  • Rain Moon
  • Raining Season

S: 28 names

  • Saltrain
  • Sandstorm Idris
  • Shivering Season
  • Smoke Event Cinderhall
  • Snow Moon
  • Snowstorm Ezekiel
  • Snowstorm Wilhelmina
  • Squall Line Lazarus
  • Squall Line Tamsin
  • Squinting Season
  • Starfrost
  • Storm Babette
  • Storm Ciaran
  • Storm Desmond
  • Storm Eunice
  • Storm Fionnuala
  • Storm Gerrit
  • Storm Hester
  • Storm Isolde
  • Storm Jocelyn
  • Storm Kathleen
  • Storm Moon
  • Subtropical Storm Ilsa
  • Sun Moon
  • Super Typhoon Ragnhild
  • Supercell Delilah
  • Supercell Rourke
  • Sweating Season

T: 378 names

  • Tempest
  • The Alberta Clipper
  • The Aleutian Low
  • The All Saints' Flood
  • The Anvil Cloud
  • The Arctic Blast
  • The Ash Dawn
  • The Ash Wednesday Windstorm
  • The Ashfall
  • The Ball Lightning Night
  • The Barber
  • The Barn-Raiser Gale
  • The Berg Wind
  • The Bermuda High
  • The Bise
  • The Bitter Fortnight
  • The Bitter Gale of Nordmark
  • The Black Easter Blizzard
  • The Black Frost
  • The Blackberry Winter
  • The Bleeding Fog
  • The Blinding
  • The Blocking High
  • The Blood Moon Storm
  • The Blood Rain
  • The Blue Norther
  • The Bluebird Days
  • The Bone Cold
  • The Bora
  • The Boxing Day Flood
  • The Breaking Light
  • The Breakup Flood
  • The Brickfielder
  • The Bridge-Breaker Flood
  • The Burning Sky of Ashkar
  • The Candlemas Storm
  • The Cannery Flood

T, continued

  • The Cape Doctor
  • The Cat Nights
  • The Cattle Killer
  • The Children's Blizzard of Stillwater
  • The Chimney Sweeper
  • The Chinook
  • The Church Bell Gale
  • The Cider Frost
  • The Cinder Fall
  • The Cloud Sea
  • The Cloud Street
  • The Cloud That Swallowed the Valley
  • The Coal Town Freeze
  • The Colorado Low
  • The Copper Sunset
  • The Courthouse Tornado
  • The Cut-Off Low
  • The Day the Birds Fell
  • The Day the Sun Went Brown
  • The Death Ridge
  • The Devil Beating His Wife
  • The Diablo
  • The Diamond Dust
  • The Dixie Alley Outbreak
  • The Dog Days
  • The Dogwood Winter
  • The Drill Bit
  • The Drought of Bells
  • The Drover's Dust
  • The Drowned Sun
  • The Drowning of Merrow Bay
  • The Dry Lightning
  • The Dust Devil Day
  • The Elephant Trunk
  • The Elephanta
  • The Ember Days
  • The Ember Monsoon
  • The Ember Storm

T, continued

  • The Equinox Gale
  • The Etesian
  • The Fairground Twister
  • The False Spring
  • The Feather Snow
  • The Fence-Flattener
  • The Ferry Storm
  • The Finger of God
  • The Fire Whirl
  • The First Melt
  • The Fisherman's Curse
  • The Flood of Lanterns
  • The Flood That Took the Bridge
  • The Foehn
  • The Fog of Voices
  • The Fog That Listens
  • The Fool's Summer
  • The Forty-Night Tempest
  • The Fox's Wedding
  • The Freeze That Stopped the Clocks
  • The Freezing Drizzle
  • The Fremantle Doctor
  • The Freshet
  • The Frost King's March
  • The Frost of Mirrors
  • The Frost That Bites Twice
  • The Gale of Leaves
  • The Gale That Moved the Church
  • The Gathering Dark
  • The Glass Frost
  • The Glass Rain
  • The Glaze
  • The Godwind
  • The Gossamer Days
  • The Graduation Day Derecho
  • The Granary Fire Wind
  • The Grapefruit Hail
  • The Graupel Shower

T, continued

  • The Gravedigger
  • The Great Blizzard of Harrowgate
  • The Great Drought of the Copper Hills
  • The Great Flood of Fenmoor
  • The Great Fog of Lindenmouth
  • The Great Freeze of Saltmarsh
  • The Great Gale of Pellinore
  • The Great Hailstorm of Tuller's Cross
  • The Great Thaw of Ness
  • The Green Monsoon
  • The Green Sky Warning
  • The Greenland Block
  • The Grieving Sky
  • The Gustnado
  • The Haboob
  • The Hail of Bells
  • The Hail of Coins
  • The Hail of Needles
  • The Hail of Teeth
  • The Hail That Broke the Glasshouse
  • The Halcyon Days
  • The Harmattan
  • The Harvest Moon Hurricane
  • The Hatteras Low
  • The Hawaiian Firehose
  • The Hay Devil
  • The Heat Lightning
  • The Helm Wind
  • The Hoarfrost Weeks
  • The Hog-Killing Cold
  • The Hollow Thaw
  • The Howling
  • The Hundred-Day Fog
  • The Hungry Wind
  • The Hunter's Moon Squall
  • The Ice Fog
  • The Ice Lord's Siege
  • The Ice-Out

T, continued

  • The Indian Summer
  • The Iron Frost
  • The Khamsin
  • The Killing Frost
  • The Lambing Snow
  • The Lammas Flood
  • The Lamp Snuffer
  • The Landspout
  • The Lantern Storm
  • The Laughing Storm
  • The Leaf Storm
  • The Leap Day Ice Storm
  • The Lenticular Night
  • The Levanter
  • The Lighthouse Gale
  • The Lightning Harvest
  • The Lightning Nest
  • The Lightning Tree
  • The Linsey-Woolsey Britches Winter
  • The Locust Winter
  • The Long Dark
  • The Long Dry
  • The Long Rain
  • The Long Thaw
  • The Loo
  • The Mackerel Sky
  • The Mailman's Blizzard
  • The Mammatus Evening
  • The Manitoba Mauler
  • The Maple Thaw
  • The Mare's Tails
  • The Market Day Flood
  • The Meltemi
  • The Michaelmas Gale
  • The Midsummer Drought of Ashby
  • The Milk Rain
  • The Mill Dam Flood
  • The Miller's Flood

T, continued

  • The Mistral
  • The Monkey's Birthday
  • The Monsoon of Bells
  • The Monsoon of Knives
  • The Moon That Brought the Tide
  • The Moon Witch's Tide
  • The Moon-Halo Nights
  • The Morning Glory
  • The Morning of Red Fog
  • The Mourning Mist
  • The Mowing Heat
  • The Mud Rain
  • The Mud Season
  • The Multi-Vortex
  • The Nacreous Dawn
  • The Needle Snow
  • The Night of Falling Ice
  • The Night the Lake Walked
  • The Night the Sky Burned
  • The Nine-Day Blow
  • The Noctilucent Season
  • The Old Wives' Summer
  • The Omega Block
  • The Onion Snow
  • The Orchard Hail
  • The Orchard Stripper
  • The Pale Gale
  • The Palm Sunday Tornado
  • The Pampero
  • The Panhandle Hook
  • The Parson's Breath
  • The Pineapple Express
  • The Polar Plunge
  • The Pollen Storm
  • The Poor Man's Fertilizer
  • The Pumpkin Frost
  • The Quarry Howl

T, continued

  • The Quickening Thaw
  • The Railyard Derecho
  • The Rain Curtain
  • The Rain Debt
  • The Rain of Fish
  • The Rain of Frogs
  • The Rain of Needles
  • The Rain Queen's Procession
  • The Rain That Forgets
  • The Rain Tithe
  • The Reaper's Breeze
  • The Reaping Wind
  • The Reckoning Rain
  • The Red Christmas Windstorm
  • The Red Monsoon
  • The Red Rain
  • The Redbud Winter
  • The Rex Block
  • The Ribbon Lightning
  • The Ridge Runner
  • The Rime Week
  • The Rivers in the Sky
  • The Robin Snow
  • The Roll Cloud Dawn
  • The Roof-Ripper of Kell
  • The Rope Tornado
  • The Sable Squall
  • The Saint Elmo's Fire Watch
  • The Salmon Rain
  • The Salt Lick Wind
  • The Salt Storm
  • The Santa Ana
  • The Sap Thaw
  • The Saskatchewan Screamer
  • The Schoolyard Blizzard
  • The Scouring
  • The Screaming Gale
  • The Sea Smoke

T, continued

  • The Sea Witch's Fog
  • The Seven Squalls
  • The Seventh Monsoon of Tanjore
  • The Shamal
  • The Shattering of the Ice Lake
  • The Shelf Cloud
  • The Shepherd's Warning
  • The Shingle Thief
  • The Siberian Express
  • The Sideways Rain
  • The Silent Snow
  • The Silver Thaw
  • The Simoom
  • The Singing Frost
  • The Singing Hail
  • The Sirocco
  • The Sleeping Snow
  • The Smoke Season
  • The Smothering Fog
  • The Snow Devil
  • The Snow of Feathers
  • The Snow That Sings
  • The Solstice Freeze
  • The Soot Snow
  • The Southerly Buster
  • The Sowing Rain
  • The Spring Flush
  • The Sprite Storm
  • The Squamish
  • The Starless Gale
  • The Steam Fog
  • The Steeple Lightning
  • The Storm Cradle
  • The Storm Crown
  • The Storm Forge
  • The Storm Nursery
  • The Storm of Crows
  • The Storm That Ate the Harbor

T, continued

  • The Stovepipe
  • The Sugar Snow
  • The Sun King's Wrath
  • The Sun That Would Not Set
  • The Sun-Dogs Week
  • The Sundowner
  • The Tallow Fog
  • The Tax Day Tornado
  • The Thirsty Sun
  • The Three Sisters Storm
  • The Threshing Gale
  • The Thunder King's Drum
  • The Thunderhead
  • The Thundersnow
  • The Tin Roof Rattler
  • The Tornado Alley Outbreak
  • The Tramontane
  • The Twelfth Night Blizzard
  • The Twin Cyclones
  • The Valley Fog
  • The Verglas
  • The Waking Rain
  • The Wall Cloud
  • The Wandering Fog
  • The Warm Gale of Sunmere
  • The Watermelon Snow
  • The Wedding Day Hail
  • The Wedge
  • The Week the River Ran Backward
  • The Weeping Rain
  • The Weeping Season of Ilmarin
  • The Whispering Wind
  • The Whisperwind of Vael
  • The Whiteout Weeks
  • The Whitsun Hail
  • The Widow's Gale
  • The Widowmaker Wind
  • The Will-o'-the-Wisp Fog

T, continued

  • The Williwaw
  • The Wind of Bells
  • The Wind of Knives
  • The Wind of Petals
  • The Wind of Sorrows
  • The Wind Queen's Dance
  • The Wind That Emptied the Square
  • The Wind That Remembers
  • The Wind Widow
  • The Wind Witch
  • The Wind Wolf
  • The Window-Rattler
  • The Windrush
  • The Windscour
  • The Winter Mother's Blanket
  • The Year of Black Snow
  • The Year of Glass Rain
  • The Year of Two Winters
  • The Year the Rivers Froze
  • The Year Without a Summer
  • The Yellow Sky Hour
  • The Zonda
  • Thornrain
  • Thunder Moon
  • Tornado Outbreak Greystone
  • Tornado Outbreak Persimmon
  • Tropical Depression Fourteen-E
  • Tropical Storm Anneke
  • Tropical Storm Bartholomew
  • Tropical Storm Celestine
  • Tropical Storm Everly
  • Tropical Storm Fenwick
  • Tropical Storm Giselle
  • Typhoon Bayani
  • Typhoon Haruto
  • Typhoon Kalani
  • Typhoon Mirasol
  • Typhoon Sunniva

W: 13 names

  • Waterspout Ondine
  • Wet Turn
  • Wind Moon
  • Winter Storm Gideon
  • Winter Storm Halvard
  • Winter Storm Ingrid
  • Winter Storm Jasper
  • Winter Storm Kestrel
  • Winter Storm Lorcan
  • Winter Storm Maren
  • Winter Storm Nikolai
  • Winter Storm Ophira
  • Wyrm's Breath