2014 Cyclones Retirement

[xtyphooncyclonex]

New names

Sonamu, Utor, Fitow, Haiyan and Vicente are now replaced with Jongdari, Barijat, Mun, Bailu and Lan, respectively.

Wiki: In the 46th session of the Typhoon Committee, it was noted the name Vicente appears on both the tropical cyclone name lists for the Western North Pacific and Eastern North Pacific. In response to this duplication the name Lan was chosen as replacement for Vicente on the Western North Pacific name list to avoid potential confusion.

[xtyphooncyclonex]

BTW in the latest meeting they mentioned RAMMASUN is retired.

[CrazyC83]

NHC is recommending that Isis be removed for political reasons. Ilene, Iola and Ivette are possible replacement names.

[Iune]

*Sigh*

It was one of my more favorite names too

Maybe bring back Iva (which was removed for some reason a few decades ago)?

[Cleveland Kent Evans]

Hopefully in another 20 years or so Isis will again be no problem, but I can see why they think it's wise not to use it in 2016.

[Yellow Evan]

*Sigh*

It was one of my more favorite names too

Maybe bring back Iva (which was removed for some reason a few decades ago)?

Too close to Iwa.

[CrazyC83]

I remember posting back in October that I thought the name Isis was going to be replaced. Imagine the headlines in 2016 if Hurricane Isis comes towards land - the media would quickly blame it on the political group.

[HurricaneRyan]

Any word on Odile & Gonzalo?

[Yellow Evan]

Any word on Odile & Gonzalo?

And Iselle?

[CrazyC83]

I think we find out Friday what names hit the dustbin.

[CrazyC83]

Atlantic: No names retired it appears

EPAC: Odile retired (replaced with Odalys), Isis removed from 2016 list for political reasons (replaced with Ivette)

http://af.reuters.com/article/egyptNews ... 2O20150417 - awaiting the NHC report

[TheStormExpert]

Atlantic: No names retired it appears

EPAC: Odile retired (replaced with Odalys), Isis removed from 2016 list for political reasons (replaced with Ivette)

http://af.reuters.com/article/egyptNews ... 2O20150417 - awaiting the NHC report

Gonzalo should have been retired from the Atlantic list IMO. It was the first and most destructive hurricane to hit Bermuda since Fabian(2003) which managed to get retired. What really aggravates me is they retired Ingrid from the previous 2013 season when was a bare minimal hurricane that weakened prior to landfall on the Mexico coastline in the BoC.

[CrazyC83]

Atlantic: No names retired it appears

EPAC: Odile retired (replaced with Odalys), Isis removed from 2016 list for political reasons (replaced with Ivette)

http://af.reuters.com/article/egyptNews ... 2O20150417 - awaiting the NHC report

Gonzalo should have been retired from the Atlantic list IMO. It was the first and most destructive hurricane to hit Bermuda since Fabian(2003) which managed to get retired. What really aggravates me is they retired Ingrid from the previous 2013 season when was a bare minimal hurricane that weakened prior to landfall on the Mexico coastline in the BoC.

Ingrid was much more destructive - both from a human and economic toll - than Gonzalo though. I was on the fence all along with Gonzalo and figured it could go either way.

[Andrew92]

The NHC website has also updated with Ivette for 2016 and Odalys for 2020. Gonzalo is indeed still there along with every other name used. No Atlantic names retired for 2014, confirmed.

-Andrew92

[Yellow Evan]

Hoenstly, both Iselle and Gonzalo should have been retired. They IMO need to start retiring more names.

[Alyono]

too many names are retired as it is. we'll be reusing retired names if we keep retiring every single landfalling storm

[psyclone]

too many names are retired as it is. we'll be reusing retired names if we keep retiring every single landfalling storm

completely concur. I think retirement should be reserved for extreme Andrew/Katrina type events. when you lower the threshold below an exceptional historic event every landfall becomes an excuse to retire. all hurricanes are wicked

[Yellow Evan]

too many names are retired as it is. we'll be reusing retired names if we keep retiring every single landfalling storm

Highly disagreed. Look at the SWIO and it uses each name once, and they haven't run out of names yet.

ATL/EPAC retirements if anything are too strict as it is. Look at the AUS.

[xtyphooncyclonex]

In the WPAC, I am surprised that Songda, Fengshen, Prapiroon and Haikui made it to the list since they have been destructive storms, with Songda '04 and Prapiroon '00 being some of the costliest tropical cyclones on record in the WPAC to strike land. Fengshen was a disaster in the Philippines, and led to an accident with over 500 dead, plus the casualties from the flood were also about 500, totalling to >1,000+ deaths in Southern Luzon and Visayas alone. Haikui in 2012 was a costly typhoon for China, leading to $2 billion in damages. Haikui replaced Longwang, and Haikui is a much better name though....

[CaneCurious]

[quote]Alyono wrote:
too many names are retired as it is. we'll be reusing retired names if we keep retiring every single landfalling storm[quote]


My parents live in Los Cabos, MX and are Hurricane Odile survivors. After seeing the destruction first hand, the name Odile most definitely should have been retired. Just because deadly hurricanes don't make landfall on the CONUS, doesn't mean that they should be dismissed.