What is the name of the typhoon?

Typhoon is one of the most serious natural disasters in the world. Strong winds and torrential rains brought about by arrival can often cause serious meteorological disasters. Typhoons are named in order to facilitate forecasting, studying and distinguishing typhoons at different times. So how on earth is the typhoon named? Now let's take a look at the name of the typhoon.

What is the name of the typhoon?

The naming of a typhoon consists of a number and a name. the number is the number of the tropical cyclone, which is composed of four digits. The first two digits represent the year, and the last two are the serial numbers of tropical cyclones above the storm level in that year. The typhoon naming method is a naming table developed in advance and then recycled year after year in order. A total of 140names are provided by 14 member countries and regions, including Cambodia, China, North Korea, Hong Kong, Japan, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Micronesia, the Philippines, South Korea, Thailand, the United States and Vietnam, to which WMO belongs. Each country or region provides 10 names, 140 names are divided into these 10 groups, and the 14 names of each group are arranged in alphabetical order and recycled according to the English names of each member state.

The latest Typhoon naming Table in China

1. Mainland: sea anemone, Wukong, jade rabbit, white deer, Fengshen, Poseidon, rhododendron, electric mother, seahorse, begonia.

2. Hong Kong: Kai Tak, Shanshan, Wanyi, Lingling, Phoenix, White Dolphin, Caiyun, Lion Rock, Saddle, Banyan Tree.

3. Macau: Sanba, Bebica, butterfly, pipa, wasp, lotus, fireworks, agate, plum blossom, coral.

What is the name of the typhoon?

The actual naming and use of typhoons is the responsibility of the Tokyo Regional Professional Meteorological Center of the Japan Meteorological Agency. When the Japan Meteorological Agency determines a tropical cyclone in the northwest Pacific or South China Sea as a tropical storm intensity, it is given a name according to the table and a four-digit number at the same time. The first two places in the number are years, and the last two are the order in which tropical storms were generated in that year, for example, 0704, tropical storm no. 4 in 2007

A tropical cyclone remains named "Man-Yi" in English and "Wanyi" in Chinese regardless of whether it strengthens or weakens throughout its life, such as Tropical Storm No. 0704, severe Tropical Storm and Typhoon. In order to avoid unnecessary confusion caused by multiple translations, the China Central Meteorological Observatory, the Hong Kong Observatory and the Macao Geophysical and Meteorological Observatory of China have decided on a unified Chinese translation.

Does the name of typhoon always exist?

Typhoons are often named "gentle" in the hope that they will cause less damage, but the World Typhoon Committee has a rule that once a typhoon causes particularly great damage to life and property, then it will occupy the name permanently, and the name will be deleted from the naming table, and the vacant name will be re-recommended by the original country or region. For example, Typhoon Yunna, which means "Hello, Hello", but according to statistics, Typhoon Yunna caused 164deaths and 24 missing in Zhejiang Province, resulting in a direct economic loss of 18.128 billion RMB. It was permanently removed from the international typhoon naming sequence.

The name "Dragon King" on Typhoon ship No. 19 in 2005 wreaked havoc all the way, posing a huge threat to the local. according to data provided by the China Meteorological Administration, the arrival of the Dragon King brought heavy precipitation to the region. Among them, the one-hour precipitation in Fuzhou broke through the historical extreme value, more than 152 mm, which is the worst impact of typhoons over the years. As a result of its arrival, it caused an economic loss of 7.478 billion yuan in Fujian, resulting in nearly 100 deaths. As a result, the International Typhoon Committee decided to delete the Chinese typhoon name "Dragon King" from the naming table, which is the first "decommissioned" name among the typhoon names provided by Chinese mainland.