Why Do We Give Hurricanes Names?
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
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Funny Hurricane Names: listphoria.blog...
What's the difference between hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons?: www.bbc.co.uk/...
What is the difference between a hurricane, a cyclone, and a typhoon?: africanreporte...
What is the difference between a tornado and a hurricane?: pmm.nasa.gov/r...
What is the difference between a tornado and a hurricane?: www.geography.l...
Where Does The Word Hurricane Come From?: www.thoughtco....
Hurricane Able: www.wpc.ncep.n...
Why Do We Name Tropical Storms And Hurricanes?: oceanservice.n...
How Are Hurricanes Named?: geology.com/hu...
Hurricane Names - How Are They Decided?: www.telegraph....
How Are Typhoons Named?: www.accuweathe...
Hey all, here's the links to donate to help people affected by Mangkhut and Florence
Mangkhut: donate.oxfam.org.uk/emergency/philippines
Florence: www.redcross.org/donate/hurricane-florence-donations.html/
There are many charities collecting money for these natural disasters, so if there's another charity you'd rather donate to that's awesome. Link it down below if you want to too :)
Patrick
Name Explain hi
I don't have money rip
ok
Thank you for recognizing our country's latest disaster...
Love from the Philippines~!
Name Explain someone got news about the Medicane Zorbas...
I'm still waiting for the ironicly unironic hurricane Stormy.
Plan on donating soon!
Stormy, lol. Carolina Hurricanes reference, or noun (storm) reference?
Loving the sound effects of this!
It actually rained earlier today where I am, so it actually made me pause a couple of times because I thought it was starting up again.
Edit: also while watching the video you revealed you're the same age as I am so now I feel extra connected :D
So how old is he?Idk when hurricane katrina happened.
24
Oh. I thought it was static that didn't get filtered out and it was really annoying. I gave up on the video about two minutes in and came down here to see if anyone else had heard it, to find out it was apparently on purpose :\
I love the background sound of this video, especially that today is the typhoon season here in the Philippines. I almost thought it was raining, but it appears that the Pacific is in a 15-minute break from throwing us typhoons.
Yeah
Was it just me or has anyone heard “VietMANese” 4:56
It seems Patrick is struggling with pronouncing even English words :P
Ain’t no word I won’t mispronounce
Just you and the "Tordado"
I was surprised to hear you pronounce "Z" as ZEE. Was that for the audience's benefit, or do you normally pronounce it that way?
Too much American TV
Name explain funny I watch to much British tv
Z is also pronounced as ZED.
Yes I think we know
@lukewarmwater
nope, it's ZET
Regular watcher from the Philippines. Thank you for giving people a chance to help out!
Mangkhut in the Philippines is named Ompong, Typhoons are named alphabetically in the Philippines from A to Z, during this times more than 26 typhoons pass by the Philippines so the list often returns to A
@@noobdesu1544 deadly mangosteen
You missed the whole origin. You are correct in the "why" of naming. The need to specify a particular storm. The naming practice began in the Caribbean where they would name the storm after the saint whose feast it was on the day the storm made landfall. That is the origin of naming hurricanes.
After the hurricanes last year, I worked a temp job receiving calls for insurance companies located in Texas. I got to learn a lot about flood and wind damage that year.
Don’t make a Harry Kane based hurricane pun... don’t make a Harry Kane based hurricane pun...
Fingernail Clipper So many times when recording this I almost accidentally said Harry Kane.
I wanted that pun so much! kkk
Only 10 during Katrina!? I didn't realize you were so young. Now I feel even older since I was a college student during Katrina and the earliest major storm I remember is Hurricane Andrew when _I_ was 10.
I wasn't even born when Katrina formed!
Did you put rain sounds in the background? :D I thought it was white noise coming from my speakers
There's an XM (FastTracker 2 module) out there called RAINSYMP.XM (you know it's an old one when the filename is in DOS 8.3 format) which has rain sounds in it as part of the music.
So, does Patrick want his name to be used for a hurricane? :-0
"Patricia" was retired in 2015, that's the closest to my name D:
@@NameExplain 😂😂😂😂😂
No this is patrick
@@Nugcon I bet he hears that joke all the time!
Zappa Woman I know I certainly did. Still do from time to time.
Hurricane Patrick sounds nice. Not to be confused with Hurricane Patricia, the second-most intense tropical cyclone on record worldwide, behind Typhoon Tip in 1979.
lukewarmwater OOOOHHHH Typhoon Tip was actually as large as India, largest typhoon to ever form that was recorded :0
@@boaoftheboaians yeah
Took me a while to finally find a video where someone actually explained how the names are picked. Thanks :D
IM ALSO REEEEAALLYYY GLAD YOU MENTIONED HOW PHILIPPINES HAS LOCAL NAMES FOR TYPHOONS, THANK YOU SIR, hats off for you! :D
i remember being about 11-12 during Wilma and Katrina. Lived in Miami at the time.
Had a 3 story tall avocado tree that was split in half by lightning in the backyard, and a small tornado at another point. No power for weeks.
A couple of thoughts. I didn't know that the Mayans had a god named juracan. I did know that the Tainos (natives of the Caribbean) had a God of death name Juracan, that is what I learned in Puerto Rican schools. Also we in Puerto Rico have been giving name to huracans at least since the 1800's. They used name of saints. The most mentioned ones are San Siriaco and San Felipe (Saint Phillip) at the early 1900's.
"I'm talking about mundane human names" Damn, was hoping to see "Scrambles the Death Dealer" on here.
Local name for you: Memphis, Tennessee experienced 'Hurricane Elvis' in 2003. While not a true hurricane, it was a straight-wind event with hurricane-strength winds. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_Summer_Storm_of_2003
"Humans like yourself" that was a nice touch.
So there was actually an episode of Rugrats back in the 90s that was about a storm named Katrina in which the child characters were confused that an acquaintance was also named Katrina. Really unfortunate that it was the same name to come back later in the rotation and be as awful as it was.
In the Mediterranean, we also have Medicanes - sort of 'Mediterranean Hurricanes', that are small hurricanes that usually hit Malta (my country), Sicily, Greece and Tunisia,
The background noise sent chills down my spine!
Also, you might have discussed about some cyclone's names too, or most probably, the *"Bhola"* cyclone
Interesting fact: In 1969 the C was supposed to be Carol but was already retired, and the idea to replace it with Camille was inspired by a high school project on hurricanes done by Camille Hope, daughter of the late weather channel hurricane specialist John Hope.
The best-known named cyclone in Australia is Cyclone Tracy, which flattened Darwin at Christmas of 1974.
I vaguely recall reading a book called "When Tracy Came for Christmas" about a family who lived through it when I was in school. Can't remember if it was fiction, but a search turning up some results on Australian web sites says it is.
Yeah
Hurricane Michael just made landfall in Florida. It's a strong Category 4 (winds of 155mph). Winds of 157 mph would push it to a Cat 5 storm. Katrina was a Cat 5, but made landfall as a Cat 3.
The only Atlantic storm to have its name retired without reaching hurricane strength was Allison in 2001. It formed quickly in the Gulf of Mexico and hit Houston with some moderate wind and rain. It was blasted offshore by a high pressure system, re-formed, and dumped 19 inches of rain on Houston in just a few hours when it came back ashore. It was pushed back over the water again and moved east to flood Louisiana. Allison then stayed fairly well organized as it moved over land to the north east. Allison ended up dumping its last rain on Philadelphia a week later.
"Extreme weathers" here in Norway also get names but these are local, decided by the national meteorological institute. But these are so few that they don't start from A each year but take about 7 years to use the alphabet. They also alternate between male and female. Dagmar (2011) is probably the worst of those that got names since 1995. Oddly, the last one (Knud) followed Birk, I suspect we imported the name from Denmark since that's a Danish name.
So its been a bad year when Hurricane Yolanda and Xander storm in. Actually looked it up .. 2005 had 28 Hurricanes. The next highest year was 20 in 1933.
2005 was wild, i remember they used up all the letter names and had to switch over to Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta.....
You could've also mentioned that in the event of too many hurricanes forming in a season (technically in the Atlantic/NE Pacific, a storm gets named once it becomes a Tropical Storm; just prior to a Hurricane), there is a backup list (usually another alphabet) which is then used. That happened in 2005, when the WMO actually had to use the Greek alphabet for the last few storms to form that season (which extended into 2006). The last storm that season was named Epsilon.
Also, hurricanes are capable of spawning tornadoes and waterspouts.
I feel like somewhere in the world a person should be able to pay a large amount of money to have the next hurricane named after them(if thier name fits the criteria)
I kid you not.
Wow. That's what I And my friends were wondering about, today! In Greece, Media didn't use the names of the hurricanes until recently, so we didn't Know why and how those names are given. These days we had 2 with the names "Xenophon" And "Zorbas". That was well-Timed information. Thank you!
I remember early Hurricanes were named after holidays it hit land on or after the place it hit like The Great Miami Hurricane or the Great Labor day Hurricane.
its really interesting that the names are recycled unless catastrophic, it seems obvious that they wouldnt just keep googling names every time there was a hurricane
snow storms now have names .just like a hurricane it is just a storm until it gets bigger and grews up to become a blizzard .
We don't give tornadoes names. We just refer to them as "a tornado" or "the tornado." So why do we need to specify which hurricane we're talking about? Very rarely, if ever, do two or more hurricanes happen at the same time.
It's only recently that they started retiring names, and I *think* fewer rotations. Two or more score ago, I recall two storms, different years but same name, both having devastating effects on the same area. That must have been a fun conversation with the insurance agent. Agent: "it saus here we already paid your claim for storm Andrew." Claimant: "that was for Andrew 1976. This claim is for Andrew 1982."
ok so i looked up the names for 2019 and the H is HUMBERTO. we're going to have a hurricane humberto!
Fun fact: Humberto is the name that replaced Hurricane Hugo of 1989
@@frankjuggaloheathen1035 yeah
A twister may not last as long but you sure as heck know when they're around. The darn things will take a house and fling it around a county. Oddly enough I do enjoy living where I am despite its location in Tornado Alley.
You forgot to mention should all the names on a given list be exhausted, hurricanes will be named after letters from the Greek alphabet. 2005 had storms Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon & Zeta.
After 2020, the greek letters are discontinued and replaced with An Auxiliary List.
2022 Anyone who's here for Hurricane Ian in Florida
Atmospheric scientist here, you did an awesome job!
Very good explanation. Thank U. 2020
An Ironic thing about Hurricane Florence was that it hit a town in South Carolina named Florence. It also hit me too but I am fine.
Damn, I remember Matthew. Flooded the highway outside my home, only savior the fact we were on a hill. Florence was Cat. 1 when I got it, Matthew was Cat. 2. Whatever the hell Michael did, I wasn’t affected.
Names for hurricanes: 1, 2, Bob, The Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900. One of these things is not like the other.
Hurricane Florence may have passed through Florence, SC
In Japan we don’t use the names at all. We count them, and nobody even knows foreigner gives names to them... how odd that is it the Japanese meteorological institute decides names then,..
No. We count them. This is typhoon 24 for example.
So sad
@@franklyngisultura7506 yeah, thats why they dont retire Jebi, Ma-on, Songda and Toraji
I wonder if they'll retire the name Florence now too. I was in NC for both Matthew and Florence, the damage from Florence was pretty comparable to Matthew.
Florence now retired and replaced with Francine
In the Philippines, we have two separate lists (male and female). We name a typhoon female if it came from the southwest while male if it came from the northeast. (Correct me if I'm wrong.)
No, it is named on a 4 rotating alphabetical lists of 25 names
1:19 ah yes, tordado, the popular game where you step n colourful dots.
People would take hurricane evacuation orders a lot more seriously if they were named "The Destroyer 3000".
How about Katrina or Rita?
In Germany also high- and low-pressure-areas ase named. In the past, the high-pressure-areas had male names and low-pressure-areas had female names. A few years ago it was changed, that this naming was altering.
If a hurricane forms And, if it has strong winds like above 180-200 mph, heavy rain, with floods, AND hits Arizona I will name it: EDUARDO.
So here's the Eduardo menu
•180-200 MPH wind
•heavy rain
•floods
State that EDUARDO may hit:
•arizona
Or if the hurricane seems more powerful and may hit the other Cities such as: USA states:
•Colorado
•half of Nebraska
So hurricane EDUARDO has 180-200 MPH wind, heavy rain, and flooding. I watched videos that hurricane Irma was the most powerful so EDUARDO might be the same as Irma.
Here in the US we often use the word "cyclone" to mean a tornado.
Unless you're one of those people like me.
What a coincidence, I just explained to my mother that Typhoons, Hurricanes, and Cyclones were the same thing, and then the next day..
Me, a nerd:
Quite an accurate video, tho I'd like to point out that "cyclone" is technically a much broader term than "hurricane" or "typhoon". "Cyclone" refers to any weather system that rotates clockwise in the southern hemisphere or counter-clockwise in the northern hemisphere. All hurricanes/typhoons are cyclones, but not all cyclones are hurricanes/typhoons. Hurricanes and typhoons are more specifically "tropical cyclones", which is the kind of cyclone you mainly discussed in this video. "Cyclone" is used as a shorthand for "tropical cyclone" in the Indian Ocean/south Pacific like you mentioned. Other nitpicks I have include the depiction of eastern Pacific hurricanes hitting the west coast of the U.S. (ocean temperatures get too cold north of Mexico's Baja California coast) and that I just wish you included the fact names are usually only given once a storm acquires gale-force winds (except for the Philippines but that's irrelevant to the video). Sorry for sounding pedantic, but not a bad video!
Petition to rename tornados to tordados
Oh man. Do you know how many times I rewatched this to make sure there were no spelling errors!? Not enough times clearly.
@@NameExplain Just say you have a cold and blame it on that.
Hurricane So-on always makes the list!
Wait Patrick? When storm ali formed in the UK were you effected by it? I think I was aswell.
Hurricanes are people too!
"The Destroyer 3000"
Fun fact: there are twice as many Korean typhoon names as any other language’s typhoons names because South Korea and North Korea, who are both in the organization, each submitted their own sets of names.
As we are now at the trailing end of Ciara and at the precipice of Dennis, I decided to rewatch this video, but you did not mention how storms heading towards Europe are named, and apparently they're named by the Met Office....at least that is true if you are not in Germany or Norway where their local met offices apparently had different names for Ciara: Sabine and Elsa respectively.
I wish there’s a hurricane named after me...
Hurricane Fingernail Clipper.
It will get old REALLY quickly.
Hurricane oof
Typhoon Mangkhut was named for the Thai word for mangosteen. While it didn't effect Thailand the furthest extent of its rain bands stretched to Bangkok and Yangon (without looking at a radar map you wouldn't have realised it wasn't just normal monsoonal rains), and on the other end reached as far as Taiwan. That's the same as going from Portugal to Russia, or from New York to Palm Springs, California! That's one big mangosteen.
Hey, Patrick! What does it mean in the UK when you call someone a "geezer"? Here in Canada (and I'm pretty sure the States, too) it just means someone who's old; sometimes with the addition that they're cranky or uptight.
Beyond that, great content, as always. Keep up the good work!
Don't forget Hurricane Epsilon!
the background rain and thunderstorm sounds satisfy my ASMR needs
Maybe I should plug some old-school PC music files, then? There's one called RAINSYMP.XM which has them as part of the music.
So what about cyclones name and their naming?
New Lists every year for the SW Indian Ocean Cyclone Basin and North Indian Ocean Cyclone Basin, A few Australian lists that pick up where the last season left off, and same for the South Pacific Cyclone Basin.
I learned something different today. We are the same age Name Explain!
Hey, @Name Explain, I have an idea for an upcoming video: "How did the Dutch provinces get their names?" Or, what I'm most curious for: "How did the youngest Dutch province, Flevoland, get its name?"
0:24 FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON THAT NAME FOR A HURRICANE (Typhoon) SENT ME LAUGHING HARD OMG XDDD
How about the names of the 12 months?
The major hurricanes I remember going through are Bob, Fran, and Gloria. (I might not have those in chronological order)
Here in Greece there is a cyclone going on right now and we named in zorbas.
ZORBAS IS A FUCKING DANCE AND SONG.Google it
You were 10 when Hurricane Katrina happened? Man, I’m old.
1:20 a twister = "tordado"?
There’s another Typhoon here in EAST ASIA
Yes.
Hurricane Harvey you know Harvey sounds like a really name for a hurricane 🌀 and speaking of hurricane Harvey that hurricane left a for baby calf stranded but the calf got rescued by a kind person and she has a pitbull and a calf and Pitbull are best friends
Also Solar storms.
0:32 why is there a hurricane about to hit British Columbia cuz I don't think that's possible
How does cyclone naming in Indian Ocean work?
Aren't tornadoes on land where as the hurricane etc are on sea?
They should name hurricanes after memes so that they end up on places such as r/fellowkids, therefore raising awareness on it. I mean, what could go wrong, I would love to have Hurricane Thanos Car destroy my house.
The cringe will drive people away. Also, the regular Joe would dismiss it as a joke as they're to ridiculous to believe. Plus, they're branded.
*HURRICANE FINLAND HAS SPAWNED*
We'd still have Emily.
Definition 174 of Emily on Urban Dictionary:
Emily's are bitches that live underground and drink the blood of kittens.
@@Felix-wq2ec Every time I hear words like "copyright" and "brand", I hate capitalism a little bit more...
Harvey got retired too.
Why do we call deadlines... Well. Deadlines?
You were ten in 2005??? Now I'm officially old.
A hurricane called Harvey hit on my birthday.
I'm just gonna send my prayers and thoughts. I'm broke.
Live by the coast you get hurricanes, move inland and you get tornadoes... sheesh
Dude! minute 1:20 Twister = TorDado :)
Not to flex or anything but we got struck by typhoon glenda when i was 6.
I did not even know what was going on. I said to mama "Mama why cant i turn on the tv and why is it raining and trees are falling and dancing???"
1:20 tordado? Tornado?
Hurricane maria last year......hello?
And Harvey, and Irma, and Nate, and Ernie, and Debbie, and Enawo, and Lan, and many more...
2:12 Oh god what a coidcidence
How are Australian cyclones named?