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Help[Facts] New hurricane auxiliary name list
Yesterday the committee of the World Meteorological Organization that deals with hurricane names for the Atlantic and the Eastern Pacific announced its decisions. Because of Covid-19 they did not meet last year.
They retired the names Dorian (from 2019) and Laura, Eta, and Iota (from 2020). Dorian was replaced by Dexter for the 2025 list, and Laura by Leah for 2026.
They also scrapped their former plan of using the letters of the Greek alphabet for hurricane names when there are more than 21 named storms in a year. (That's where Eta and Iota come from.) Instead they have created "auxiliary" 7th lists for both the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific that will be used if the main list runs out. The auxiliary lists, especially the one for the Atlantic, are pretty amazing, looking much more multicultural and much more like a list of what people are naming babies recently than names used for hurricanes ever have been before. The Atlantic auxiliary list, for example, includes the recently invented African-American male names Braylen, Deshawn, and Tayshaun, and also has Emery as a "female" name. Here is a link to the full auxiliary lists:
https://public.wmo.int/en/media/news/supplemental-list-of-tropical-cyclone-names-raiv
They retired the names Dorian (from 2019) and Laura, Eta, and Iota (from 2020). Dorian was replaced by Dexter for the 2025 list, and Laura by Leah for 2026.
They also scrapped their former plan of using the letters of the Greek alphabet for hurricane names when there are more than 21 named storms in a year. (That's where Eta and Iota come from.) Instead they have created "auxiliary" 7th lists for both the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific that will be used if the main list runs out. The auxiliary lists, especially the one for the Atlantic, are pretty amazing, looking much more multicultural and much more like a list of what people are naming babies recently than names used for hurricanes ever have been before. The Atlantic auxiliary list, for example, includes the recently invented African-American male names Braylen, Deshawn, and Tayshaun, and also has Emery as a "female" name. Here is a link to the full auxiliary lists:
https://public.wmo.int/en/media/news/supplemental-list-of-tropical-cyclone-names-raiv
This message was edited 3/18/2021, 10:04 AM
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Oh that's neat! There's a trend of more named storms year by year, so the auxiliary list will likely be used more often.
https://www.behindthename.com/namesakes/list/hurricane/chrono
https://www.behindthename.com/namesakes/list/hurricane/chrono
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