The original intention of naming typhoons is that typhoons with names are easier for people to pay attention to and remember. Professional organizations hope that people will pay more attention to the dangers of typhoons. So what are the typhoon naming rules and basis? Next, let’s take a look at the typhoon naming rules and basis.
Typhoon Naming Rules
The naming list has 140 names, which are from Cambodia, Mainland China, and North Korea in the Asia-Pacific region of the World Meteorological Organization. , Hong Kong, China, Japan, Laos, Macau, China, Malaysia, Micronesia, the Philippines, South Korea, Thailand, the United States and Vietnam are provided by 11 member states and 14 regions to facilitate the people of all countries to prevent typhoons and disasters and strengthen international and regional cooperation. .
In this set of 140 typhoon names proposed by 14 members, each country and region proposed 10 names.
The 10 proposed by China are: Dragon King (later replaced by "Sea Anemone"), Wukong, Jade Rabbit, Petrel, Wind God, Poseidon, Cuckoo, Lightning Mother, Seahorse and Begonia. Typhoon naming basis
On average, about 80 tropical cyclones are generated in the world every year, of which about 28 tropical cyclones are generated every year in the northwest Pacific and South China Sea. In order to facilitate distinction and memory, and to prepare for early warning and defense against typhoons, it is necessary to give the typhoon a name.
The Northwest Pacific region is the world's largest region except for the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean and North Atlantic regions where the United States is located (the United States calls tropical cyclones hurricanes, and when they reach a certain intensity, they are called Category 1 hurricanes. As the tropical cyclones The intensification of the cyclone is called a Category 2 hurricane or higher). In areas with the most frequent tropical cyclone activity, up to a dozen landfall in China every year.
Before there were internationally unified naming rules, relevant countries and regions had different names for tropical storms that appeared here. The same typhoon often had several names. In our country, four digits are numbered according to the region and time in which they occurred. The first two digits are the year and the last two digits are the sequence number. The typhoon centers of the Asia-Pacific Regional Professional Meteorological Observatory under the World Meteorological Organization located in Tokyo, Japan, are numbered in order of entering 180 degrees east longitude and north of the equator. The U.S. Naval Joint Typhoon Warning Center in Guam is named after people from British and American countries, and international media also often use the naming of Guam in reports. There are also some countries or regions that have their own names for typhoons that affect their area.
People began to name typhoons in the early 20th century. It is said that the first person to name a typhoon was Australian forecaster Clement Lange in the early 20th century. He named tropical cyclones he did not like. Politicians, whereby weathermen can openly jokingly call it.
In the Northwest Pacific, the official naming of typhoons after people began in 1945. At first, only women's names were used. Later, it is said that due to opposition from feminists, starting in 1979, a man's name and a man's name were used. Female names are used interchangeably.
In order to avoid name confusion, the 30th meeting of the Typhoon Committee of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) held in Hong Kong from November 25 to December 1, 1997 decided that tropical cyclones in the northwest Pacific and South China Sea should be named Asian-style naming, and decided to use the new naming method from January 1, 2000.