But whether or not the expected storm season does arrive, we have seen plenty like it in the North East in the past.
We have gathered a series of archive photos to show the storms we have lived through in years gone by.
See how many of these scenes you remember.
5. Wild and wonderful in 2018
Stormy seas at the Heugh Breakwater, Hartlepool, two years ago. Photo: Kevin Brady
6. Surveying the scene in 2005
The damage after storms in South Shields in 2005. Photo: IB
7. Storm Ali hits Hartlepool
Council workmen make trees safe on the A689 Belle Vue Road in Hartlepool after Storm Ali battered the town with 60mph winds in 2018. Photo: flr
8. Storms in 1975
Severe storms lashed the North East coast in 1975 and this picture at the Sunderland South Docks shipyard of Austin and Pickersgill shows waves crashing against the south breakwater, sometimes reaching 100 feet high. Work on the after-end of ships on the berths had to be suspended. Photo: Sunderland Echo