WMO Hurricane Committee meets in Bermuda

[Ad Novoxium]

I wonder if there was any substantive discussion about the South Atlantic given what happened there last week. I don't think it's a good idea to get into the habit of letting private companies name storms and take authority and credibility away from the official organizations. Imagine if Accu-weather or any number of the blue-bolded members on our board had authority to name the storms....we'd get storms like "Hurricane Professor Chaos" and "Tropical Storm Lame-O" or spinning around out there.

Speaking of, are the organizations who name European windstorms WMO officials or private groups?

[senorpepr]

I wonder if there was any substantive discussion about the South Atlantic given what happened there last week. I don't think it's a good idea to get into the habit of letting private companies name storms and take authority and credibility away from the official organizations. Imagine if Accu-weather or any number of the blue-bolded members on our board had authority to name the storms....we'd get storms like "Hurricane Professor Chaos" and "Tropical Storm Lame-O" or spinning around out there.

Speaking of, are the organizations who name European windstorms WMO officials or private groups?

The Free University of Berlin's Institute of Meteorology names European storms.

About eight years ago, the university started allowing the public to "adopt" a name with the funds raised going to help finance their met program.

[CrazyC83]

It seems the 2015 lists will be the same as the 2009 lists - I can't find any evidence of any names retired.

[littlevince]

Speaking of, are the organizations who name European windstorms WMO officials or private groups?

It's a public academic institution, but does not have an official WMO mandate to do so. Their names are an old tradition and in the last decade their names gradually began be used throughout Europe because people need a name for major storms (Lothar, Martin, Erwin, Kyrill, Tilo, Klaus, Xynthia, etc.). Today the names are also used in the scientific literature.
They name lows but also highs, and name selection is done under an auction
http://www.met.fu-berlin.de/adopt-a-vortex/

Interestingly, in the Meteo France report, they appear to take issue with the NHC's and RA IV's definition of Grace as a tropical cyclone:

This is interesting. The general opinion here in Europe is that NHC is very conservative in naming systems in East Atlantic because they are far from the U.S, but now we see here a major european weather office even more conservative.

[Macrocane]

Does anyone know why the final report is not out yet?