Do you know how cyclones are named?

You might not know when the next cyclone will hit the Asian and Pacific countries, but you can be sure it will be called by a name. How a cyclone named before it takes place?


Here comes the fact…


First naming of the tropical cyclone was took around 20th century by an Australian weather forecaster. He gave the name to the cyclones, which was the name of the politicians whom he disliked. It is clear that naming a cyclone is up to the forecaster wish, which forecaster identify it and report it first in public. So the names were meaningless, say it may be whatever, the dog’s name of the forecaster.


During the Second World War, they were named as girl’s name. This is because the military people used their beloved’s name, say their mother, wife, girlfriend or daughter, whom they missed. Later this get into practice, but this varied from place to place. Some named them using their military alphabetical names, some used both male and female names, and some used the best of their area as the cyclone name.


By giving random names, lead confusion for the government to follow the data. That is they cannot hold the data and follow where the recues has finished and where to be given support etc. As they last for a week and took again in that same place within a short period, the weather forecaster find difficult to communicate within them and to follow the data and the reports.


So, the Tropical Cyclone bodies decided to give the cyclone name through a systematic procedure. There are five tropical cyclones regional bodies. They are ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee, WMO/ESCAP Panel on Tropical Cyclones, RA I Tropical Cyclone Committee, RA IV Hurricane Committee, and RA V Tropical Cyclone Committee. They prepared six lists. Each list which will be repeatedly used for naming for every six years, in a cyclic way, say for example 2010’s list might be used in 2016.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml

Have a glance in this...

You can guess what is the name of the next cyclone in your region.

But for Indian region 8 nations: Pakistan, the Maldives, India, SriLanka, Bangladesh, Oman, Myanmar and Thailand Cycle their list.