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Met Office yellow weather warnings have been issued for wind and rain impacts on Thursday in the United Kingdom.
This severe weather come as a deepening area of low pressure heads across southern England that has the potential to be a named storm.
Impacts for the UK do not look severe enough for the Met Office to name this weather system.
However, the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), Météo France or the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium may decide to name it.
Heavy rain will spread in across southern England late on Wednesday, spreading north-east and likely to persist right through until late Thursday.
The Met Office yellow warning for rain covers much of southern and eastern England from midnight on Wednesday night into Thursday, and through until 21:00 BST.
Rainfall totals by early Thursday morning could be widely 20-30mm (around 1in), and for some places 30-50mm (up to 2in).
There is a small chance a few places could exceed this, most likely over Devon and Cornwall and more generally in eastern England.
Localised flooding and some transport disruption is possible.
The wind will also strengthen with an additional yellow warning from the Met Office covering west Wales and south-west England from 04:00 until 18:00 BST.
A separate wind warning has also been issued for eastern England from 09:00 Thursday until 23:59 BST.
Very strong north-westerly winds gusting to 45-55mph (70-90km/h) in both areas are possible, while locally 65mph (105km/h) on the east coast is also possible.
While there is still some uncertainty on the intensity of this weather system, the Met Office warns that there is potential for gusts up to 75mph (120km/h) for a small period of time later on Thursday morning and into the afternoon.
These wind speeds have the potential to topple trees or their branches, cause travel disruption and even bring power cuts.
While the impacts for the UK are not thought severe enough for this low pressure system to be named by the Met Office, we could still end up talking about a named storm.
With much stronger winds expected in northern France or Belgium on Thursday, impacts there could be much more severe.
In this instance, Météo France or the Royal Meteorological Institute in Belgium could name it Storm Benjamin.
Benjamin is second on the list of names in the south-western Europe meteorological group consisting of Portugal, Spain, Luxembourg, France and Belgium.
However, if the Netherlands meteorological agency decides that impacts there will be more severe, it may wish to name it first.
And because the Netherlands is in partnership with the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland in the western meteorological group, it would come from our list of named storms.
The next storm on our list is Storm Bram.
It might therefore seem like quite a complicated situation with uncertainties remaining firstly on whether the low pressure system will be intense enough to be given a name, and secondly, what name it would be given.
However, all weather agencies discuss the forecast and a decision will be made that will become consistent for all.
For now, stay tuned to the forecast and get all the latest updates from us here at BBC Weather.
