Why does each typhoon have a different name? How did you choose a name?

Typhoons all have a name, such as Typhoon No. 14 "Yunna", and now it is "Ayu", how is the typhoon named? The first names for typhoons began in some European countries, dating back to the early 19th century, although at the time they were haphazard.

In the beginning, meteorologists in Europe and the United States liked to use women's names. One year, two typhoons jumped out of the Gulf of Mexico at the same time, named "Alice" and "Barbara", and the "little sisters" caused an unprecedented flood. As a result, the movement against naming typhoons after women took off, until Hurricane Cecil in 1979, the first typhoon in U.S. history to be named after a man.

China originally numbered the typhoons. For example, "8807" is Typhoon No. 7 in 1988. The name of the number is concise, popular, and easy to remember, but the name of the same typhoon is different in each country.

In order to facilitate communication, the Typhoon Committee of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) proposed a naming scheme for tropical cyclones in the Northwest Pacific and the South China Sea, and decided that 14 typhoon-prone countries and regions in the region would each provide 10 names, which would be recycled after approval, making a total of 140. In addition to Hong Kong and Macau, which each mentioned ten, Chinese mainland provided names were: Dragon King, Jade Rabbit, Fengshen, Cuckoo, Seahorse, Wukong, Haiyan, Seagod, Electric Mother and Begonia.

The new tropical cyclone naming method was implemented on January 1, 2000, so that typhoons that have formed in the Northwest Pacific after 2000 have a nice name.

However, if a typhoon commits a heinous crime, the member concerned can apply to the Typhoon Committee for a name change and the bad name removed from the list. So far, four have been kicked out of the list, such as the "Thrush" that brought strong storms to Singapore in 2001 and the "Ibudu" that caused heavy losses to Guangdong and Guangxi in 2003. Now it seems that "Yunna" may not have a chance to come out next time.

According to the relevant experts of the Typhoon Section of the Meteorological Observatory, the name of the typhoon by the Meteorological Observatory began on January 1, 2000. Previously, China had been using the tropical cyclone numbering system.

In order to facilitate exchanges among countries, the Economic and Social Council for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and the Typhoon Committee of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) have developed a unified typhoon naming system, with 10 names provided by member organizations of 14 countries and regions in the Asia-Pacific region, including Cambodia, China, North Korea, the United States and Vietnam, which are recycled after approval by relevant special meetings.

The 10 names selected by China for the typhoon organization fully reflect the national style, they are: Dragon King, Wukong, Jade Rabbit, Seahorse, Haiyan, Rhododendron, Begonia, Electric Mother, Poseidon, and Fengshen. （

In order to distinguish different typhoons (tropical cyclones), it is necessary to give them separate names.

Typhoons were first distinguished according to their location (mainly latitude and longitude), which was quite cumbersome and often unsatisfactory. Until the beginning of the 19th century, some Spanish-speaking Caribbeans named hurricanes after the time of the holy calendar when the hurricane made landfall.

At the end of the 19th century, Australian forecaster Krimmen Langer named typhoons after politicians he hated.

During World War II, Americans named typhoons after women. At the end of the 70s of the 20th century, at the request of the American feminist movement, the nomenclature was expanded to alternate male and female names. This practice was soon widely adopted in the Western Hemisphere.

Later, under the coordination of the regional typhoon committees of the World Meteorological Organization, the naming of typhoons became international. In most regions, typhoon nomenclature (usually alternating male and female names) is developed by the region's typhoon committee.

Typhoon Naming:

The 140 names of tropical cyclones in the Northwest Pacific and the South China Sea adopted by the 31st Typhoon Committee are provided by 14 members in the Asia-Pacific region, including Cambodia, China, North Korea, Hong Kong, Macau, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Philippines, South Korea, Thailand, the United States and Vietnam (each member provides 10 names).

The 140 names are divided into 10 groups; There are 14 names in each group (1 name for each member), in alphabetical order for each member. Named tables are sequentially and recycled.

According to the regulations, a tropical cyclone will always maintain its name regardless of whether it strengthens or weakens throughout its life. Most of these names come from the well-known legends of the host country and region. The name provided by China is:

Dragon King", "Jade Rabbit", "Wind God", "Cuckoo", "Seahorse", "Wukong", "Petrel", "Poseidon", "Electric Mother" and "Begonia".

Typhoons endanger and protect people at the same time. Typhoons have brought fresh water resources to mankind and greatly alleviated the global water shortage. A typhoon with a small diameter can bring 3 billion tons of precipitation when it makes landfall.

In addition, typhoons have kept the heat and cold relatively balanced around the world. The equatorial region has a hot climate, and if it weren't for typhoons to dissipate the heat, the tropics would be hotter, the cold zones would be colder, and the temperate zones would disappear from the earth.

(1) People began to name typhoons in the early 20th century, and it is said that the first time to name a typhoon was the early 20th century Australian newspaperman Rymen Langer, who named the tropical cyclone after a politician he did not like, so that meteorologists could openly jokingly call it;

2)that in order to avoid confusion in the names, the 30th meeting of the Typhoon Committee of the World Meteorological Organization, held in Hong Kong from 25 November to 1 December 1997, decided that tropical cyclones in the Northwest Pacific and the South China Sea should be named in an Asian style, and that a new nomenclature would be used with effect from 1 January 2000; (3) The name of typhoon is mostly "gentle", and most of them have the meaning of elegance and peace, such as "Nida" is the name of a Thai lady. Flower names such as jasmine, rose, etc. On the one hand, it is expected that the damage caused by typhoons will be smaller.

On the one hand, because the arrival of the typhoon will bring abundant rain, which will greatly alleviate the local drought and change the local high temperature phenomenon, it is not a complete "big evil".

The name of the typhoon is based on tropical cyclones in the northwest Pacific and the South China Sea.

The internationally unified typhoon nomenclature is a nomenclature jointly formulated in advance by the surrounding countries and regions formed and affected by tropical cyclones, and then reused in a cyclical cycle year after year.

There are a total of 140 names in the nomenclature list, which are provided by 14 member countries and regions in the Asia-Pacific region belonging to the World Meteorological Organization: Cambodia, hail in Chinese mainland, North Korea, Hong Kong, Japan, Laos, Macao, Malaysia, Micronesia, the Philippines, South Korea, Thailand, the United States and Vietnam, so as to facilitate civil air defense and strengthen international and regional cooperation. Of the 140 typhoon names proposed by the 14 members, 10 were proposed by each country and region.

The origin of the name of the typhoon

In order to avoid confusion about the names of typhoons, the 30th meeting of the World Meteorological Organization Committee on the Rehabilitation of Typhoons from 25 November to 1 December 1997 decided that tropical cyclones in the north-western Pacific and the South China Sea should be named in the Asian style, and that the new nomenclature would be used with effect from 1 January 2000.

The names of typhoons are mostly "gentle", and most of them have the meaning of elegance and peace, such as "Nida" is the name of a Thai lady. Flower names such as jasmine, rose, etc. On the one hand, it is expected that the damage caused by typhoons will be smaller.

On the one hand, because the arrival of the typhoon will bring abundant rain, which will greatly alleviate the local drought and change the local high temperature phenomenon, it is not a complete "big evil".