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wierd/gross cyclone names

#1 Postby JonathanBelles » Wed Jan 04, 2006 3:01 pm

what are some wierd cyclone names?
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#2 Postby JonathanBelles » Wed Jan 04, 2006 3:02 pm

like aslic and bobbly
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#3 Postby HurryKane » Wed Jan 04, 2006 3:03 pm

Well, there was Hurricane Booger, and he scared the nose nuggets out of me.


The lists of hurricane/cyclone names can be found here...none of them seem overly weird to me.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml
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#4 Postby JonathanBelles » Wed Jan 04, 2006 5:53 pm

hurricane booger huh lol
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#5 Postby OtherHD » Wed Jan 04, 2006 6:10 pm

typhoon longwang...........................
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#6 Postby JonathanBelles » Wed Jan 04, 2006 6:10 pm

lol i didnt think of that one lmao
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#7 Postby Terrell » Wed Jan 04, 2006 6:38 pm

OtherHD wrote:typhoon longwang...........................


That one was funny. Even if it means "dragon king" in Chinese (I think) our meaning of it makes it funny.
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#8 Postby Hurricanehink » Wed Jan 04, 2006 7:34 pm

Tropical Storm Knut. I know it is a normal name in Spanish, I think, but it is weird for Americans.
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#9 Postby Jim Cantore » Wed Jan 04, 2006 8:28 pm

typhoon tingting
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#10 Postby mike815 » Wed Jan 04, 2006 9:37 pm

definetly longwang LOL :lol:
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#11 Postby HurricaneBill » Wed Jan 04, 2006 11:23 pm

Super Typhoon Gay.
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#12 Postby HurricaneBill » Wed Jan 04, 2006 11:24 pm

In the early 1980s, in the southwest Indian Ocean basin, there was a Tropical Storm Christ.
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#13 Postby jimvb » Thu Jan 05, 2006 12:46 am

Careful about making fun of these names. They are perfectly normal sounding in China and other places where the names come from, including Tingting.

Also, I believe the Super Typhoon would be Egay, and Knut is not Spanish; in fact, Spanish originally did not have a k and the kn sound is unknown in that language.

My suggestion for a weird name would be Hurricane Godzilla.
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Re: Careful

#14 Postby mtm4319 » Thu Jan 05, 2006 12:55 am

jimvb wrote:Careful about making fun of these names. They are perfectly normal sounding in China and other places where the names come from, including Tingting.

Also, I believe the Super Typhoon would be Egay, and Knut is not Spanish; in fact, Spanish originally did not have a k and the kn sound is unknown in that language.

My suggestion for a weird name would be Hurricane Godzilla.


But that name doesn't exist.

The WMO wouldn't choose names that sounded weird to people in the areas the storms affected, so we have to look to storms such as Longwang to find 'weird' names to us.
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Re: Careful

#15 Postby HurricaneBill » Thu Jan 05, 2006 2:26 am

jimvb wrote:
Also, I believe the Super Typhoon would be Egay, and Knut is not Spanish; in fact, Spanish originally did not have a k and the kn sound is unknown in that language.



Nope, there was a Super Typhoon Gay in 1989 and 1992. Remember, Gay is a woman's name, although one that has dropped in use due to its slang meaning.

Knut is Scandinavian, I believe. I have heard it pronounced as "noot" and also as "ka-noot".
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#16 Postby apocalypt-flyer » Thu Jan 05, 2006 6:21 am

It's a German name, too, but WELL out of fashion :lol:
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#17 Postby Tampa Bay Hurricane » Thu Jan 05, 2006 1:03 pm

longwang LOL
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#18 Postby HurricaneBill » Thu Jan 05, 2006 2:59 pm

For Longwang, I think the Chinese pronunciation would be "loong-wong".

The Southwest Indian Ocean Basin tends to have the more "exotic" names.
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#19 Postby Ivanhater » Thu Jan 05, 2006 3:07 pm

Tampa Bay Hurricane wrote:longwang LOL


:roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:
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#20 Postby MiamiensisWx » Thu Jan 05, 2006 3:11 pm

How about Typhoon Nock-ten?
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