(Deutsche Welle) Germany’s DWD weather service on Tuesday used Ahmet as the official name for a low pressure system over Romania that’s headed for Germany and Poland and set to bump into Lisa, another low over Italy, and Alexander, a high over Scotland.
Fourteen sponsored names designated by the Institute for Meteorology at Berlin’s Free University await Europe in the coming months, including Bozena and Dimitrios.
As part of a campaign by journalists from migrant backgrounds, names from Arabic, Kurdish, Slavic and other communities will feature on Germany’s weather maps in 2021, supplementing classic German names such as Günter and Angela.