{"id":7738,"date":"2020-05-01T18:49:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T13:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=7738"},"modified":"2023-04-13T13:04:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T07:34:41","slug":"new-list-of-cyclone-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/new-list-of-cyclone-names\/","title":{"rendered":"New list of cyclone names"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New list of cyclone names<\/h1>\n
Relevance: Prelims: Geography<\/strong><\/span>Why in news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<\/section>\n
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\u2022 The India Meteorological Department (IMD) released a new list of names of tropical cyclones over the north Indian Ocean including the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea, comprising of 169 names including 13 from India such as Gati, Tej, Aag, Neer, Vyom, Jhar and Jaladhi among others.<\/p>\n

About:<\/b><\/p>\n

\"Cyclones\"<\/p>\n

\u2022 The current list has, in fact, 13 names each from all 13 member countries of the Regional specialized meteorological centres (RSMCs) including Bangladesh, Iran, Maldives, Myanmar, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, United Arab Emirates and Yemen.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The IMD is one of the six RSMCs in the world to provide tropical cyclone and storm surge advisories finalised the new list of 169 names.<\/p>\n

Significance:<\/b><\/p>\n

\u2022 Naming of Tropical Cyclones helps the scientific community, disaster managers, media and general masses to<\/p>\n

\u2022 identify each individual cyclone.<\/p>\n

\u2022 create awareness of its development.<\/p>\n

\u2022 remove confusion in case of simultaneous occurrence of TCs over a region<\/p>\n

\u2022 remember a TC easily<\/p>\n

\u2022 rapidly and effectively disseminate warnings to a much wider audience<\/p>\n

\u2022 Once the last name (Amphan) of the previous list is used, the TCs thereafter will be known one-by-one as Nisarga (shared by Bangladesh), Gati (India), Nivar (Iran) in that order from the list of 169 names.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The other names from India in the new list include Murasu, Probaho, Prabhanjan, Ghumi, Ambud, and Vega. The names of TCs over the north Indian Ocean are not repeated. Once used, it will cease to be used again.<\/p>\n

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