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List of retired Philippine typhoon names List of retired South Pacific cyclone names In addition, one South Atlantic tropical cyclone name, Kamby , was retired before being used, for unknown reasons, and was replaced by Kurumí , which was used in 2020.
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.
In 1960, naming also began in the southwestern Indian Ocean, and in 1963 the Philippine Meteorological Service started assigning names to tropical cyclones that moved into or formed in their area of responsibility. Later in 1963, warning centers within the Australian region also commenced naming tropical cyclones.
Ahead of the 2000–01 season, it was decided to start using male names, as well as female names for tropical cyclones developing in the South-West Indian Ocean. [60] During September 2001, RSMC La Réunion proposed that the basin adopt a single circular list of names and that a tropical cyclone have only one name during its lifetime. [61]
On Wednesday, the organization's hurricane committee announced it retired Fiona and Ian from the rotating lists of Atlantic tropical cyclone names. Both Fiona and Ian developed in September 2022 ...
Pages in category "Lists of retired tropical cyclone names" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Altogether, 16 tropical cyclone names were retired during the 2010s. [ nb 2 ] Collectively, these systems killed at least 4779 people and caused at least $450 billion worth of damage. Among them, Hurricane Maria was the most intense tropical cyclone by pressure, with a minimum value of 908 hPa (26.81 inHg), as well as the deadliest, with 3,057 ...
The name David has been used for four tropical cyclones worldwide, once each in the: Atlantic Ocean (where it was retired from use after 1979), Australian region of the South Pacific Ocean, South-West Indian Ocean, and Western Pacific Ocean.