if SHARKISHA don't make ya run, nothing will...
Posted on 09/25/2020 4:56:59 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Hurricanes are often assigned unsuitable names. Katrina, Camille, Josephine, Eloise, Fabian…Noel (my name, for heaven’s sake) wrought much havoc; some have even been forced into ignominious retirement, essentially thrown onto the stormy scrap heap of history. Why are such noble names doomed to live in hurricane infamy when there are plenty of other more menacing monikers available?
The World Metrological Association keeps six lists of 21 male and female names that are rotated every six years, and they are overweighed with uncommon, yet pleasant names that hardly promote the kind of “run for your lives” mindset hurricanes often warrant. However, there are plenty of names that do instill a sense of foreboding.
Kamala, Bernie, Nancy, and AOC would all capture the dark side of nature better than Josephine or Noel, but none are on the lists the WMA maintains for the North Atlantic storms.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
It won't surprise me to hear this in the not too distant future: "Stay tuned to The Weather Channel for our continuing non-stop coverage of partly cloudy with a chance of rain Fred."
Storm Alpha 2020...Beta 2020...and so on.
Ridiculous for storms to have human names.
Maybe animal names, alternating between cats and dogs....Fido 2020, Fluffy 2020, Spot 2020...and my favorite storm name, Puddles 2020.
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Sheila Jackson Lee opined that it was discrimination that hurricanes did not have AA sounding names.
| 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arthur Bertha Cristobal Dolly Edouard Fay Gonzalo Hanna Isaias Josephine Kyle Laura Marco Nana Omar Paulette Rene Sally Teddy Vicky Wilfred |
Ana Bill Claudette Danny Elsa Fred Grace Henri Ida Julian Kate Larry Mindy Nicholas Odette Peter Rose Sam Teresa Victor Wanda |
Alex Bonnie Colin Danielle Earl Fiona Gaston Hermine Ian Julia Karl Lisa Martin Nicole Owen Paula Richard Shary Tobias Virginie Walter |
Arlene Bret Cindy Don Emily Franklin Gert Harold Idalia Jose Katia Lee Margot Nigel Ophelia Philippe Rina Sean Tammy Vince Whitney |
Alberto Beryl Chris Debby Ernesto Francine Gordon Helene Isaac Joyce Kirk Leslie Milton Nadine Oscar Patty Rafael Sara Tony Valerie William |
Andrea Barry Chantal Dorian Erin Fernand Gabrielle Humberto Imelda Jerry Karen Lorenzo Melissa Nestor Olga Pablo Rebekah Sebastien Tanya Van Wendy |
Since 1953, Atlantic tropical storms had been named from lists originated by the National Hurricane Center. They are now maintained and updated through a strict procedure by an international committee of the World Meteorological Organization.
The six lists above are used in rotation and re-cycled every six years, i.e., the 2019 list will be used again in 2025. The only time that there is a change in the list is if a storm is so deadly or costly that the future use of its name on a different storm would be inappropriate for reasons of sensitivity. If that occurs, then at an annual meeting by the WMO committee (called primarily to discuss many other issues) the offending name is stricken from the list and another name is selected to replace it. Several names have been retired since the lists were created. .
If a storm forms in the off-season, it will take the next name in the list based on the current calendar date. For example, if a tropical cyclone formed on December 28th, it would take the name from the previous season's list of names. If a storm formed in February, it would be named from the subsequent season's list of names.
In the event that more than twenty-one named tropical cyclones occur in the Atlantic basin in a season, additional storms will take names from the Greek alphabet
Why worry about it? Unless there is substantial damage left behind or someone wants their 15 minutes of fame, a few hours after the cleanup no one remembers the name anyway. And each one is only remembered by the people that had the thing hit them. And there is a path for these things and the next one will be in shortly at certain times of the year. So why not just have 2020 hurricane A, B, C..... You can’t see the wind and unless you’re near the ocean, the waves either unless you are glued to the Weather Channel. So does it make any difference outside of paperwork? Why make it so difficult? The people there know they’re coming and they continue to live there. They just call it another dam hurricane.
It’s kind of like marriage. A marriage is a business contract. It’s there for insurance purposes.
rwood
Aren't hurricane names divided into male and female verboten now? And where is Hurricane Ra'moniqu and La-Ah (you gotta pronounce the dash, feel me)? What about Asian names? Hurricanes just be raciss now...
I see White and Hispanic name representation, but overall the list is racist, what, don’t Black names matter?
Jashanna
Kimani
Makayla
Sheniqua
Jamal
Kwamie
then AA, AB, AC...
then BA, BB, BC...
and so on
Need to use ghetto street names for hurricanes!
Aisha, BaShika, Cantifa, DeShawa, E’tifa, Ficusha, GiJika ect.
No more WHITE names. Most hurricanes originate off the African coast, so giving them White names is obvious cultural appropriation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqK17ALyQi8
It seems silly, but it drives me crazy that they miss a whole bunch of letters and then run around to alpha, beta, etc. When they come to the last letters, they’ve ended at W so why not come up with an X, Y and Z name and announce them?
It’s just one of my weird pet peeves.
Maybe people would be more likely to evacuate from hurricanes if we didn’t give them wussy, non-scary names, like Harvey or Irma. I’ll bet if you called a hurricane Megatron Death 2000, they’d get the hell out of town as fast as they could.
And of course, the next one up in 2020 is Nana. Who can be scared of ‘Nana’?
My Granny!
Just number them sequentially. You never run out of numbers.
The names have become a political thing, with the appropriate distribution of male/female/Hispanic/ names. Conspicuously, there are no Shantavius, Laquisha, Mo’Niques on the list! Or Ahmed, Aziza, Mahmet.
Everything has become political in the USA.
But would they complain about using numbers? Would they say that math discriminates against non-Whites? Maybe the answer is using a few grunts and clicks.
They're trying to prove there are more hurricanes by naming every rain storm.
if SHARKISHA don't make ya run, nothing will...
No, no, no SHARKISHA!!!
We have to wait until 2025 for a shot at enduring Hurricane Karen.
That’s a good thing.
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