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Naming conventions used in Europe are generally based on conditions that are forecast, not conditions that have actually occurred, as public awareness and preparedness are often cited as the main purpose of the naming schemes–for example, a reference. [9] Therefore, an assignment of a storm name does not mean that a storm will actually develop.
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Storms are named for historical reasons to avoid confusion when communicating with the public, as more than one storm can exist at a time. Names are drawn in order from predetermined lists. For tropical cyclones, names are assigned when a system has one-, three-, or ten-minute winds of more than 65 km/h (40 mph).
The furthest a storm season has reached in the alphabet is the letter K in 2016. UK speeding through list of named storms with nine in five months Skip to main content
2015 list of storm names from UK Met Office and Met Éireann The UK Met Office and Ireland's Met Éireann held discussions about developing a common naming system for Atlantic storms. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] In 2015 a pilot project by the two forecasters was launched as " Name our storms " which sought public participation in naming large-scale cyclonic ...
The Met Office said: “The system did not meet the criteria to be named by the Met Office’s storm naming group, which includes Met Eireann and KNMI.” Nevertheless, Storm Herminia battered the UK.
An early example of a woman's name being used for a storm was in the 1941 novel "Storm" by George R. Stewart. The book was dramatized as "A Storm Called Maria" by Disney in 1959.
The names of significant tropical cyclones are retired from the lists, with a replacement name selected at the next meeting of the Hurricane Committee. [1] If all of the names on the annual name list are used, any additional tropical or subtropical storms will receive a name from a supplemental list. [1]