Overview

• The move extends Spain’s participation in Europe’s storm‑naming scheme, which Aemet has joined since 2017 for high‑impact storms.
• Names will be drawn from a 20‑name list agreed by the Southwest Europe group of meteorological services and will alternate masculine and feminine.
• Aemet says the practice is intended to improve risk communication, support preparedness and response by administrations, and facilitate post‑event studies.
• DANAs are mid‑ and upper‑level low‑pressure systems whose impacts depend on additional factors such as humid, warm Mediterranean air, and they are difficult to predict.
• The policy responds to renewed catastrophic associations with the term after last October’s deadly DANA in Valencia that killed more than 220 people.