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cesium133:
The naming schemes are determined by the weather organizations that monitor the storms. So, in the southwest Pacific, they're named by Australia's weather organization (don't know the name), in the eastern and central Pacific, they're named by NOAA, and in the western Pacific, by Japan's weather agency.
Method of Madness:
Haha, "naming schemes" sounds so sinister. I love it. But I don't mean the official names, like "Hurricane Katrina". I mean the idea that it's inaccurate to call that storm a cyclone or a typhoon.
cesium133:
I think it generally derives from the media sticking to the official names (with exceptions, such as Hurricane Sandy being called "Superstorm Sandy" by the media).
Method of Madness:
Oh god, I fucking hated the name "superstorm". I'd mind it less if "superstorm" actually had a definition other than "it sounds cool!"
Akima:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 30 Mar 2017, 07:58 ---That's incredibly strange. It'd be one thing if people around the world called the storm itself different names, but to have them just have different names depending on where they are? Why?
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The customary regional names for the storms were generally attached when global communication was much less, and there was no international standardisation. Often the names derive from local languages in the regions where the storms occur, which were adopted by Europeans who had no name for weather-systems that don't occur in Europe. As I understand it, "hurricane" is from hurakán, meaning "God of the storm" in an indigenous language of the Caribbean, and "typhoon" is from the Chinese 台风 or 颱風 (táifēng pron. "taifung") meaning "great wind". The names were also adopted before any scientific understanding existed of the common nature of these storms.
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