Talk:Tropical cyclone naming/Archive 1

message: Why are they all supposedly "Christian"-based names?---Soomaali
:Because the areas impacted by storms with those have a mostly Christian heritage. North America, the Philippines, Australia. Other areas do not - the western Pacific hardly has "Christian" names, nor does Hawaii. Can you clarify your question? --Golbez 14:41, July 11, 2005 (UTC)
:Omar is listed and that is Muslim--220.238.238.21 08:15, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Christian"-based names? 

message: Why the leap (alphabetically) between Hurricane Katrina and Rita?
:There were hurricanes in between them which were named and caused less damage, some of them probably never hitting land. See Lists_of_tropical_cyclone_names#North_Atlantic and you will find Lee, Maria, Nate, Ophelia and Phillippe. Sjakkalle (Check!) 14:06, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Specifically, Lee was a fishspinner; Maria hit Iceland as a strong extratropical storm; Nate brushed Bermuda; Ophelia sat off the Florida and North Carolina coasts for a couple of days; and Philippe was another fishspinner. --Golbez 18:00, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Katrina/Rita 

message: Okay, so what should happen if a Hurricane Alpha or Hurricane Beta causes a lot of damage, enough to warrant retirement?  Considering we are now out of names after Hurricane Wilma, this is entirely possible.  Might the NHC request that the WMO add a "short list" of X/Y/Z names, alternating every other year?  This could even be the same six names as the Pacific, but in opposite years, because each letter name has opposite genders in the same year, and because high activity in one basin means low in the other (so both will not be used near each other).  –radiojon 05:31, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: They'll use the Greek letters, and if it is bad enough to warrant retirement, they'll retire it.  There are 24 letters in the Greek alphabet.  Given the rarity of ever having to use them, let alone retire them, it is unlikely that there will be a problem with running out anytime within the next few hundred years. Peyna 00:12, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: This probably does not exclude it from the other basin (ie: Alpha is retired in Atlantic but not EPac) but I'm not sure. Hilda, Dora, and Celia are on the EPac lists despite being retired in the Atlantic. Miss Michelle | Talk to Michelle 22:53, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Retirement of Greek letters? 

message: All letters of the alphabet are used except Q, U, X, Y and Z.
:Why is this?  And should the reason why be explained in the article?
- Jord 04:39, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Because there are few names that begin with those letters. Retire a few and you soon start to run out of logical ones. --Golbez 04:50, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

text: There aren't an incredible amount of easily usable/pronouncable names that begin with those letters.  It's pretty self-evident, but if enough people can't figure it out on their own it might be worth mentioning. Peyna 04:51, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah this makes sense and I assumed as much but I didn't know whether or not it might have been due to a more complicated reason, i.e. l's and o's aren't used in alphanumeric identifies so as to not confuse them with 1's and 0's. - Jord 05:00, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

text: One reason for the 5 unused letters was that they based their list on the 1933 season and it's then record of 21 storms.  It is possible (but no bets on how probable) the either a few more letters will be added after this record season. Donovan Ravenhull 12:54, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  "The use of 21 names was established in reference to the 1933 Atlantic hurricane season which had been the record holder for the most storms in the region."  Is there anything to back this up other than speculation?  It could be coincidence that that year had just as many letters as there are reasonably usable letters given common first names.  For instance, the Eastern Nothern Pacific has 24 names available (all but Q and U).  I do however, find a lot of places stating that the reason Q, U, X, Y and Z are left is for the reason I mention above.  Provide some evidence of a reasonable authority stating that the 1933 season is the reason for having 21 names or I'll remove the note soon.  Peyna 04:30, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  The Eastern Pacific went to 24 names sometime during the '80s when the list was threatened to become used up. During I think 1985, they added "X", "Y", and "Z" names midseason. Only "X" was used. Before this, they only used 21 names also. Bsd987 23:08, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unused letters 

message: Does anyone know what names are retired? That would be good to have here. --BDD 15:43, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: From the NHC: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/retirednames.shtml Peyna 19:05, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Retired Names

message: Has anyone ever wondered why some of the names are spelled slightly different than usual (Henri instead of Henry, or Georges (with an 'S' added instead of the usual George), etc.?  -- Eddie 04:07, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: That's how they spell those names in France. —Bunchofgrapes  (talk) 04:13, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

text: Because they don't just use English names. Peyna 04:19, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

text: In the Atlantic basin, countries effected speak English, Spanish, and French. The names reflect this. (There's also some small Dutch territories in the region but I don't know if this is reflected in the naming) --Golbez 04:43, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling of the names. 

message: Why not the next Atlantic hurricane season they use names with Q,U,X,Y and Z instead of the greek letters?
I´ve been cheking names with those letters and there are some
Q: Quinta, Queen, Quarry, Quirke, Quillen
U: Uma, Ulises, Uriel, Urim, Uzai
X: Xavier, Xena, Xina, Ximena, Xuxa, Xerxes
Y: Yolanda, York, Yani, Yael, Yuridia, Yuri, Yvel
Z: Zelda, Zeke, Zoe, Zeeb, Zara, Zared, Zair, Zion, Zibbi
The problem is keeping the male/female alternation. Next year, a P name is female and the R name is male. How can a Q name fit in between? In addition, what about retirement. You found a few names, but there have been 2 R names retired in history (Roxanne and I will assume Rita), and a possible S and a W. This shows that names far down the alphabet can be retired, leading to a potential problem. I like the usage of the 7th list, but in my perfect world, the 7th list would be a list of ambiguous gender human names (Avery, Brook, Casey, Devon). Hurricanehink 12:38, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, Xena, Xerxes, York, Yolanda, Zeke and Zelda are already used by the Pacific list. --Golbez 16:30, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, Xavier is the one that is used in the EPAC, but you are right. There aren't enough of those names for a full list. Hurricanehink 18:02, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: But the pacific list uses just two names each year for those letters.  Also is Queen really a name? -- Eddie 03:33, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: What about Queen Latifah? — Michael J 04:33, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You should check out the List of historic tropical cyclone names; few names you all come up with can match what was actually on the list in the 1950s. Thegreatdr 18:43, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Q,U,X,Y and Z names 

message: While I was looking at the Hurricane Ophelia page, it said there was $1.6 billion in damage, and there was one direst death. Is is possible Ophelia will be retired. Lionheart Omega 23:05, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Surely it is possible. Jdorje 20:08, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Hurricane Ophelia

message: More consistent formatting of lists into tables.  Right now some use real tables while some use lists within tables. Jdorje 20:17, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: For an article like this sources are extremely important.  And right now there are none (just a few external links). — jdorje (talk) 21:52, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Why are sources important for "an article like this"?  The information isn't contentious, untrustworthy or statement of someone else's opinion. Peyna 20:49, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The reason for this is because how are we supposed to know if someone changes a list. For example, the Atlantic lists during the 1970's were very little known until one user came and added the full lists. We have no idea if they are true or not because (s)he did not add sources. Hurricanehink 22:08, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Todo

message: Jdorje brought this up at the Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tropical cyclones talk page. Perhaps this and the List of previous tropical cyclone names should be merged. This could then be split up by basin, like Naming of Atlantic hurricanes, which would give the history of naming. Having old names and current names are a little confusing, so one page with both, then split up, would make more sense in my book. In addition, this page is hardly a list of tropical cyclone names. If it is moved, a page like this could replace it, and act more as a list of tropical cyclone names. Hurricanehink 01:53, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It kinda looks like vandalism.  I don't have factual knowledge of the names that were changed and added, so I can't say for sure.  If it's a legitimate edit, it's possible the japan section was removed by accident. — jdorje (talk) 05:41, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

text: To avoid such problems, you should add a change message. Why should we redo the research if you've already done it?  All you have to do is tell us the reasons for the change. — jdorje (talk) 22:46, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Re "Delinking cyclone names removes the need of creating seperate articles for cyclones who names haven't been used!" - redlinks don't hurt (you don't have to create an article or every cyclone), and two of the names were used. I've added those two back. And please, don't take people asking what's going on a personal insult, because I can assure you that its not. -- All the best, Nickj (t) 06:06, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Renaming 

message: What happens if one year they run out of names and Hurricane Beta (or some other greek letter) becomes huge and needs to be retired. Does that mean in future years they will simply skip that Greek letter? or find some other name or letter to replace it in the Greek alphabet?
:I don't think we t know. You'd have to ask the WMO, I think. --Golbez 04:42, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The greek alphabet, IMO, was a poor decision to name storms either way. In your scenario, a greek storm could have been retired. The unnamed storm, if named operationally, would have been Vince, Vince would be Wilma, and then Alpha would be the most intense Atlantic hurricane, as well as extremely costly and deadly. Hurricanehink (talk) 13:48, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Retire the Greek alphabet?

message: Gender alternates both between adjacent names in a list (a male name is followed by a female one and vice versa) and between initial names between lists (if one year's list starts with a female name, the next year's list begins with a male one and vice versa).
::Is this true? or is is just an urban legend?. Storm05 13:36, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Then why are there three consecutive female names in the 2011 list (Maria, Nate and Ophlelia) and 2007 list (Melissa, Noel and Olga) and 2008 list (Paloma, Rene and Sally)?. Storm05 17:01, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Err, Nate, Noel, and Rene are male names. Noel is also a girl's name, and Renee is a girl's name. Hurricanehink (talk) 17:06, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Renee and René are pronounced the same way (as is Reneé) but with only one e is always male. Male and female Noel are pronounced differently, male being one syllable, female being two. Nate ... I don't think anyone has ever thought Nate was a female name. Short for Natasha, I guess? *shrug* --Golbez 17:45, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Is this true?

message: Western North Pacific
For the meaning of new names proposed by Hong Kong, refer to the middle part of this document.
The link to the document gives a 404 - anyone mind finding a replacement link? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.35.194.196 (talk) 03:39, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broken link? in Western North Pacific