Storm names should tell a story or two | Brief letters
Storm Austen | Interpreting Hokusai | NI for pensioners | Creative car names | Queue for the BayeuxI was delighted to see that the first storm of the season is...
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Storm Austen | Interpreting Hokusai | NI for pensioners | Creative car names | Queue for the Bayeux I was delighted to see that the first storm of the season is called Austen ( Report, 20 October ). I envisaged that its successors might be named after the Brontë sisters, Dickens and other notable British novelists. But my excitement soon subsided when I read that Storm Austen has been named not for Jane, but Austen Nagle, the first director of the Met Office. Christine Shuttleworth London • Jonathan Jones rightly praises the new exhibition of Hokusai’s work in Dulwich ( Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji review, 19 October ). But in Japan the work is read from right to left. We go with the power of the wave, but if you reverse the print, the wave appears even more dangerous. David Cockayne Warrington, Cheshire Continue reading...