Hurricane Names

[charleston_hugo_veteran]

O.K.....Who comes up with these names? It is a round table of people on drugs or what? Gaston?? LOL...That's a weird name!

[Miss Mary]

Must be a soap opera kinda name!

When I think of G, I think of George. Not many choices for G I guess.

Mary

[Guest]

Gaston is a common name in Latin America.

[Brent]

Gaston replaced Georges after 1998. Yes, it's a weird name.

[Derecho]

They're chosen by the World Meteorological Organization.

In each tropical basin, all of the countries in or near the basin contribute names to the list (well, except for the North Indian Ocean, which uses numbers only) from their language. The French names are a result of the French islands of Martinique, etc., and Haiti.

[Anonymous]

Gaston is also known as Gus.

[x-y-no]

Is there any truth to the rumor that after this year "Frances" will be replaced by "Frog"?

[Brent]

Is there any truth to the rumor that after this year "Frances" will be replaced by "Frog"?

I'm 99% sure that was a joke. I didn't even know Frog was a female name.

[x-y-no]

I'm 99% sure that was a joke. I didn't even know Frog was a female name.

Yeah, I know, but wouldn't it be great? Talk about getting the French delegate's nose out of joint!

I'm not sure why it would take an international committee to decide this stuff anyway ... probably they just needed another creative way to spend some tax money, LOL!

[Aslkahuna]

The World Meterological Organization (WMO) is an International body set up to coordinate Meteorological procedures amongst the various national Met Agencies to ensure uniformity in the data, observations and forecasts. Although the US is a member of the WMO, we tend to follow our own dictates in certain areas which can lead to confusion. Chief among these are that we do not use metric units and our sustained wind criteria is different from just about everybody else's. But since the NHC is the RSMC for tropical cyclones in the Atlantic and Eastern North Pacific Basins, it uses the coordinated list of names. As I'm sure most people are aware of by now, the names used in WPAC are generally not Proper names but more often terms because the number of names in most Asian languages are limited.

Steve

[ColdFront77]

Is there any truth to the rumor that after this year "Frances" will be replaced by "Frog"?

Floydbuster made a joke; as he mentioned the day after he created that thread.

[Ixolib]

Gaston replaced Georges after 1998. Yes, it's a weird name.

Well.... George(s) was pretty weird too. I mean, who ever heard of guy named Georges??? George, yes! But Georges!!??

[Brent]

Gaston replaced Georges after 1998. Yes, it's a weird name.

Well.... George(s) was pretty weird too. I mean, who ever heard of guy named Georges??? George, yes! But Georges!!??

It's French( ) and it was pronounced Zhorzh, LOL, I hated that.

[flashflood1998]

while i have no doubts that the WMO had productive intentions in mind when coming up with the naming process, i have a feeling that it's taking an increasingly weird turn here in the states with every new season. the media loves to play it up, personifying these deadly storms to the point that people outside the affected areas may even consider it fun to track the progress of them... it reminds me of how people pick horses at the track because they have cute names and root for them to win in an undereducated/detached kind of way.

i'm guilty of doing it myself, so i'm certainly not picking on people here in the forum that addictively track storms. but with the continual growth of the internet and cable tv universe, it seems that these storms become bigger media events and the cute names only add to the fervor. it just seems weird, considering the amount of death and property loss suffered each time these suckers hit land. you don't see them naming forest fires out west... at least not yet.

[alicia-w]

I guess Gaston is an odd name if you dont get out and about much. I've dated two guys named Gaston (though neither one was a real catch). Not such an odd name. There have been stranger ones. No one thought Blas was an odd name? What about Hermine? Yule? Gaston is tame in comparison.

[charleston_hugo_veteran]

I guess Gaston is an odd name if you dont get out and about much. I've dated two guys named Gaston (though neither one was a real catch). Not such an odd name. There have been stranger ones. No one thought Blas was an odd name? What about Hermine? Yule? Gaston is tame in comparison.

ummm...I am very familiar with the name Gaston, but only seems to me to sound good as a city or sub-division, not a hurricane, only my opinion of course!

[Guest]

I want the name Chalupa or Chalupo to replace Charley.

[charleston_hugo_veteran]

LOL...

[HurricaneBill]

They're chosen by the World Meteorological Organization.

In each tropical basin, all of the countries in or near the basin contribute names to the list (well, except for the North Indian Ocean, which uses numbers only) from their language. The French names are a result of the French islands of Martinique, etc., and Haiti.

Actually, I think the North Indian Ocean basin finally hopped onto the bandwagon. I saw a site that had names listed for the North Indian Ocean basin. It was similar to the WPAC system. Each country would select names.