According the Met Office , storms alternate between male and female names, which are alphabetised each year. They do this to raise awareness of these drastic weather conditions and make them easier to follow on TV and social media platforms. So what do we have this year? The selection includes:. Seems pretty fair, right?
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Why are people so dang obsessed with Mars? How viruses shape our world. The era of greyhound racing in the U. See how people have imagined life on Mars through history. See More. For Atlantic hurricanes, there is a list of names for each of six years. In other words, one list is repeated every sixth year.
The only time that there is a change is if a storm is so deadly or costly that the future use of its name on a different storm would be inappropriate for obvious reasons of sensitivity.
If that occurs, then at an annual meeting by the committee called primarily to discuss many other issues the offending name is stricken from the list and another name is selected to replace it. There is an exception to the retirement rule, however. Before , when the first permanent six-year storm name list began, some storm names were simply not used anymore. For example, in , "Fern" was substituted for "Frieda," and no reason was cited. There are, however, a great number of destructive storms not included on this list because they occurred before the hurricane naming convention was established in In the event that more than twenty-one named tropical cyclones occur in the Atlantic basin in a season, or more than twenty-four named tropical cyclones in the eastern North Pacific basin, any additional storms will take names from an alternate list of names approved by the WMO for each basin.
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