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Tropical cyclones are named for historical reasons and so as to avoid confusion when communicating with the public, as more than one tropical cyclone can exist at a time. Names are drawn in order from predetermined lists. They are usually assigned to tropical cyclones with one-, three-, or ten-minute windspeeds of at least 65 km/h (40 mph).
The practice of using names to identify tropical cyclones goes back several centuries, with storms named after places, saints or things they hit before the formal start of naming in each basin. Examples of such names are the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane (also known as the "San Felipe II" hurricane) and the 1938 New England hurricane .
Tropical cyclones are named to avoid confusion with the public and streamline communications, as more than one tropical cyclone can exist at a time. Names are drawn in order from predetermined lists, [1] and are usually assigned to tropical cyclones with one-, three- or ten-minute windspeeds of more than 65 km/h (40 mph). However, standards ...
Before the formal start of naming, tropical cyclones were often named after places, objects, or saints' feast days on which they occurred. The credit for the first usage of personal names for weather systems is generally given to the Queensland Government meteorologist Clement Wragge, who named systems between 1887 and 1907.
Atlantic Canada has been hit with many storms, with the ones that do hit usually being weak storms, due to the generally cool waters offshore. Some hurricanes can strike the area full force as the warm Gulf Stream extends fairly close to Atlantic Canada. Due to the cool waters for a great distance from the Pacific coast of Canada, there has ...
1963 – was downgraded after the fact; it never warranted a name. 1964 – affected Madagascar. 1965† – a weak east Pacific tropical cyclone that caused heavy damage in Mexico. 1979 – a powerful tropical cyclone caused $41 million in damage, among the costliest Western Australian cyclones.
2018 – a tropical cyclone off northeastern Australia. 2021 – long-lived Category 4 hurricane that stayed out at sea. Lindsay; 1985† – a tropical cyclone that struck Broome, Western Australia. 1996 – a tropical cyclone southwest of Indonesia. Linfa; 2003 – brought deadly flooding to areas of the Philippines and Japan in May and June ...
The name Lisa has been used for nine tropical cyclones worldwide: five in the Atlantic Ocean, one in the Western Pacific Ocean, one in the South-West Indian Ocean, one in the Australian region, and one in the South Pacific Ocean. In the Atlantic: Hurricane Lisa (1998) – a Category 1 hurricane that did not affect land