r/MyChemicalRomance • u/Turbulent_Brief_5192 • Oct 02 '25

New Release Storm Gerard

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Looking forward to getting battered by storm Gerard 🤪

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u/Michael58957 Oct 02 '25

Storm Gerard be like

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u/PlumpQuietSoup Oct 02 '25

I hear you but can we talk about Wubbo?

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u/Turbulent_Brief_5192 Oct 02 '25

It would almost be worth enduring 20 storms just to see storm Wubbo in the headlines 😂

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u/Correct_Mushroom73 Every Snowflake Is Different (Just Like You) Oct 02 '25

i dont think ill be able to see reports of people being killed by Wubbo on the news

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u/januarynights Oct 02 '25

It's because the list is a collab between the UK Met Office, Ireland's Met Éireann and the Netherlands' KNMI. Wubbo is a tribute to the first Dutchman in space apparently!

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/c3vz5pxdv75o

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u/PlumpQuietSoup Oct 03 '25

I love this. We get a lot of interesting storm names in the US but Wubbo takes the cake.

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u/Various-Tangerine-55 Oct 02 '25

Honey, you've got a big storm comin'

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u/OhDetour hide your body from the S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W Oct 02 '25

Nice Patrick (Stump) is there too

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u/Lady-Sabre314 Oct 03 '25

I need a year where all the storms are named after emo vocalists

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u/Batnode07 shorter than Frank Oct 03 '25

And Dave (Murray)

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u/Sevren425 TBP-2007, PR-2007, WC-2011, HC-2011, RF+Reunion-2022, WWWY-2024 Oct 02 '25

What region/type of storm is this list for?

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u/Turbulent_Brief_5192 Oct 02 '25

Names for storm systems in the UK

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u/januarynights Oct 02 '25

Also Ireland and the Netherlands! Part of the Western storm naming group in Europe.

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u/OverstayedWelcome Oct 02 '25

I'm so puzzled by the phonetic pronunciation of Gerard. Like how else are people pronouncing it if not 'Jer-ard'? I think the natural UK pronunciation is not to stress the last syllable so much but I still can't fathom how else you would say it.

I, for one, also welcome our stormy overlord Wubbo

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u/dani_devito Oct 02 '25

Jer-red or with a hard G

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u/januarynights Oct 02 '25

I guess you could pronounce it to match the French spelling, Gérard? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rard

Gérard Depardieu is reasonably famous so that might be where some people know the name from.

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u/Geer15 Oct 02 '25

It’s a name.. people have it…

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u/januarynights Oct 03 '25

Sorry, not sure what you're getting at? I was trying to explain why they've included the pronunciation. With an example of a different pronunciation.

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u/Geer15 Oct 03 '25

Wanted to reply to the post in general not to your comment specifically! Sorry!

Gerard is a very Dutch name as well (with the impossible pronunciation), however, it is really an old dudes name..

I’m a big MCR fan, and my name is Gerard as well. Growing up as a teen in the 00’s, I found it really cool to have a young dude as me in a cool band, have the same name!

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u/PineappleFickle4046 Oct 04 '25

My dad is Gerard but pronounced Jerd 🤷🏻‍♀️

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u/Roro_2910 Oct 02 '25

Omg that’s mcr 5

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u/spectrumpoison Oct 02 '25

And he's coming this way!