Informative How Cyclones are named?

[Stranger Boss]

Brief Explanation:

How Cyclones are named which are controlled by the World Meteorological agency.

In the Indian Ocean, there are 13 Countries and each Country has to suggest 13 names per Country for naming future cyclones. This list was compiled in 2020. Hence 13 Countries X by 13 = 169 names.

I have attached the list below. As can be seen that next Cyclone will be called Yaas suggested by Oman.By the way this is forming in the Bay of Bengal and will hit Orrisa/West Bengal/Bangladesh by 26th to 27th May.
After Yaas, the next Cyclone name will be Gulab as suggested by Pakistan.
This will go on till all 169 names are exhausted. By this time are great, great, great great Grandchildren will live to see the end of the list

Hope you find this information of cyclone naming interesting?

 

[Yumster]

to make great, great, great great grandchildren live to see first job is to get married...Nice information btw

 

[URum]

Great info

 

[Deepak Kiran]

This is the second cyclone to hit India in the month of May after Cyclone Tauktae (named by Myanmar) formed over the Arabian Sea which hit the western coast on May 17 and caused massive damage in Maharashtra and Gujarat.

The present cyclone Yaas has been named by Oman. Yaas refers to a tree that has a good fragrance and in English, the word is similar to Jasmine.


Who gives the name to a cyclone?

The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) maintains rotating lists of names, which are appropriate for each tropical cyclone basin. If a cyclone is particularly deadly or costly, then its name is retired and replaced by another.

Generally, the name list is proposed by the National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHS) of the WMO members of a specific region and approved by the respective tropical cyclone regional bodies at their annual or biennial sessions.

Worldwide there are six regional specialised meteorological centres (RSMCs) mandated for issuing advisories and naming tropical cyclones.


The India Meteorological Department is one of the six RSMCs mandated to provide tropical cyclone advisories to 13 member countries including Bangladesh, India, Iran, Maldives, Myanmar, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.

RSMC, New Delhi is also mandated to name the Tropical Cyclones developing over the north Indian Ocean (NIO) including the Bay of Bengal (BoB) and the Arabian Sea (AS).

 

[Deepak Kiran]

How does naming a cyclone help?


Naming a cyclone helps the scientific community, disaster managers, media, and general masses due to the following reasons.

• Identify each individual cyclone.
• Create awareness of its development.
• Remove confusion in case of simultaneous occurrence of tropical cyclones over a region.
• Rapidly and effectively disseminate warnings to a much wider audience.
• Remember a tropical cyclone easily.

How is a name selected for cyclone?

The IMD has released a new set of names for tropical cyclones over the North Indian Ocean. According to the IMD press release, during WMO’s 45th Session held at Muscat, Oman in September 2018 it was decided to prepare a fresh list of names of tropical cyclones including representation from five new member countries including Iran, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.


The new list of tropical cyclone names was adopted by WMO/ESCAP Panel Member Countries in April 2020 for the naming of tropical cyclones over the North Indian Ocean including the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea. The current list has a total of 169 names. The next in line is Cyclone Gulab, pronounced "Gul-aab" from Pakistan.

Last year, India had witnessed two cyclones by May, Amphan in the Bay of Bengal and Nisarga in the Arabian Sea. Amphan was from the previous list. From the fresh list, Bangladesh named the next cyclone Nisarga.

 

[Shraavan29]

Wow, great info