Within five days New Zealand has been affected by three systems coming from tropical or sub-tropical origins – two were ex-tropical cyclones with names and had huge news coverage, the other has no name, poses a greater threat to more populated areas, but doesn’t seem as newsworthy in the mainstream media.

In today’s Herald on Sunday Philip Duncan’s writes a column about why storms with names capture our attention more.

Today WeatherWatch.co.nz wants to know, if you could name this sub-tropical low bringing heavy rain to northern New Zealand what name would you come up with – and why would you choose that name?

Post a comment below… be creative!

– WeatherWatch.co.nz