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- In 2023, there were 78 named storms registered worldwide, down from 87 storms in the previous year. Overall, there was an average of 87 named tropical cyclones registered per year from 1980 to 2023.
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The following is a list of tropical cyclones by year. Since the year 957, there have been at least 12,791 recorded tropical or subtropical cyclones in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, which are known as basins.
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The use of easily remembered names greatly reduces confusionwhen two or moretropical storms occur at the same time. For example, one hurricane canbe moving slowly westward in the Gulf of Mexico, while at exactlythe same time another hurricane can be moving rapidly northward alongthe Atlantic coast. In the past, confusion and false rumors have arise...
For several hundred years many hurricanes in the West Indieswere named after the particular saint's day on which the hurricaneoccurred. Ivan R. Tannehill describes in his book "Hurricanes"the major tropical storms of recorded history and mentions manyhurricanes named after saints. For example, there was "HurricaneSanta Ana" which struck Puerto Rico...
The NHC does not control the naming of tropical storms.Instead a strict procedure has been established by an international committee of the World Meteorological Organization. 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 isa change is if a stor...
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. This naming convention has been established by the Worl...
The name selected comes from one of six rotating alphabetic lists of twenty-one names, that are maintained by the World Meteorological Organization's (WMO) RA IV Hurricane Committee. [1] These lists skip the letters Q, U, X, Y and Z, rotate from year to year and alternate between male and female names. [1]
Sep 8, 2023 · Until 2020, if over 21 named tropical cyclones occur in a year, the Greek alphabet was used following the "W" name. However, this list was found to cause confusion in certain circumstances and replaced.
In the event that more than twenty-four named tropical cyclones in the eastern North Pacific basin in a season, any additional storms will take names from an alternate list of names approved by the WMO. Here are the pronunciation guides for the eastern North Pacific basin.
WMO has now developed strict procedures to determine a list of tropical cyclone names. There are different rules for naming cyclones in different parts of the world. In some places like the Atlantic and Southern Hemisphere, cyclones are named alphabetically, alternating men's and women's names.
Procedure of Naming Tropical Cyclones. There is a strict procedure to determine a list of tropical cyclone names in an ocean basin (s) by the Tropical Cyclone Regional Body responsible for that basin (s) at its annual/biennial meeting. There are five tropical cyclone regional bodies, i.e. ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee, WMO/ESCAP Panel on Tropical ...
