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[48] [49] Four sets of tropical cyclone names are rotated annually with typhoon names stricken from the list should they do more than 1 billion pesos worth of damage to the Philippines and/or cause 300 or more deaths. [50] [51] Should the list of names for a given year prove insufficient, names are taken from an auxiliary list. [50]
A replacement name is then submitted to the committee concerned and voted upon, but these names can be rejected and replaced with another name for various reasons: these reasons include the spelling and pronunciation of the name, the similarity to the name of a recent tropical cyclone or on another list of names, and the length of the name for ...
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It was also agreed that each name would have to be approved by each member and that a single objection would be enough to veto a name. [47] A list of 140 names was subsequently drawn up and submitted to the Typhoon Committee's 32nd session, who after a lengthy discussion approved the list and decided to implement it on January 1, 2000.
Before 1953, tropical storms and hurricanes were tracked by year and the order in which they occurred during that year, not by names. At first, the United States only used female names for storms.
This group maintains six alphabetic lists of twenty-one names, with one list used each year. This normally results in each name being reused every six years. However, in the case of a particularly deadly or damaging storm, that storm's name is retired, and a replacement starting with the same letter is selected to take its place.
The Atlantic hurricane season lasts a whopping six months of the year, so it's no wonder why we have to keep track of each tropical storm with its own name. Hurricane season, in the Atlantic, goes ...