Why is this necessary? Do people with the same name of an extremely deadly storm mind that lots of people associate their name with death? It would be like having the first name "concentration camp," or something similiar...
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Tropical cyclones were first named in the late 1890s and early 1900s by a Scottish meteorologist, Clement Wragge, working in Queensland, Australia. he named them after Greek gods and goddesses and occasionally politicians. The first three Prime Ministers of Australia got a tropical cyclone named after them. The naming was for ease of identification.
The practice fell in abeyance until it was revived by American meteorologists in the 1950s. Tropical cyclones (and hurricanes and typhoons, same thing) were given women's names. In 1974 the Australian Government ordered the Australian Bureau of Meteorology to use men's names as well as women's names and new lists were approved by the World Meteorological Organisation and the first tropical cyclone with a man's name appeared in 1975. The USA caught up in 1979.
Today most lists alternate male and female names except the Western North Pacific and South China Sea list. Cambodia, China, DPR Korea, Hong Kong (China), Japan, Lao PDR, Macao (China),
Malaysia, Micronesia, Philippines, RO Korea, Thailand, U.S.A., and Vietnam all contribute names to this list and while some of them are people's names, others are flowers, animals, seasons etc in the various languages involved. They are not always people's names although most other lists are.
The storms are named just as Wragge did for ease of identification as tropical cyclones are discrete weather systems.
The practice fell in abeyance until it was revived by American meteorologists in the 1950s. Tropical cyclones (and hurricanes and typhoons, same thing) were given women's names. In 1974 the Australian Government ordered the Australian Bureau of Meteorology to use men's names as well as women's names and new lists were approved by the World Meteorological Organisation and the first tropical cyclone with a man's name appeared in 1975. The USA caught up in 1979.
Today most lists alternate male and female names except the Western North Pacific and South China Sea list. Cambodia, China, DPR Korea, Hong Kong (China), Japan, Lao PDR, Macao (China),
Malaysia, Micronesia, Philippines, RO Korea, Thailand, U.S.A., and Vietnam all contribute names to this list and while some of them are people's names, others are flowers, animals, seasons etc in the various languages involved. They are not always people's names although most other lists are.
The storms are named just as Wragge did for ease of identification as tropical cyclones are discrete weather systems.
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If you're referring to naming tropical cyclones, it is done in present day to help with the dissemination of information to the general public. It is not unusual to have several tropical storms occurring at the same time in any given basin. By naming them, it is easier for the general populace to know which storm you are referring to, and which storm is pertinent to them.
Here is a link that goes into the history of naming storms, and how these names are selected for the lists: http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/tcp/St…
Here is a link that goes into the history of naming storms, and how these names are selected for the lists: http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/tcp/St…
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What else will they name it? Branch?!!?!?! They don't name it after any person. There just calling it with a first name.