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Kanor no more: PAGASA updates its cyclone list
State weather forecasters quietly updated their list of tropical cyclone names on Tuesday, discreetly sidestepping a potentially sticky PR situation.
PAGASA's social media accounts posted a notice that the next cyclone in the Philippine Area of Responsibility will be called "Karding" and not "Kanor" as previously proposed. Kanor was previously in the list of cyclone names for 2014 as of January this year, replacing Katring, according to local weather site Typhoon2000.ph.
PAGASA forecaster Fernando Cada said the agency is wary of leading people to make light of a cyclone: "Mang Kanor" is notorious as the eponymous star of a series of local sex videos.
"Decision ng higher-up (ang pagtanggal ng pangalang Kanor) para di maging katawatawa. Baka ma-headline, 'Pilipinas binayo ni Kanor.' So baka imbes na mag-prepare tayo sa disaster, baka maging focus pa (ang pangalan) sa social media," Cada told dzBB.
PAGASA's social media accounts posted a notice that the next cyclone in the Philippine Area of Responsibility will be called "Karding" and not "Kanor" as previously proposed. Kanor was previously in the list of cyclone names for 2014 as of January this year, replacing Katring, according to local weather site Typhoon2000.ph.
Post by Dost_pagasa.
As of Tuesday, PAGASA'S official list of typhoon names for 2014 list now includes:
- AGATON
- BASYANG
- CALOY
- DOMENG
- ESTER
- FLORITA
- GLENDA
- HENRY
- INDAY
- JOSE
- KARDING
- LUIS
- MARIO
- NENENG
- OMPONG
- PAENG
- QUEENIE
- RUBY
- SENIANG
- TOMAS
- USMAN
- VENUS
- WALDO
- YAYANG
- ZENY
An auxiliary list—in case the country experiences more than 26 storms in the year—includes:
- AGILA
- BAGWIS
- CHITO
- DIEGO
- ELENA
- FELINO
- GUNDING
- HARRIET
- INDANG
- JESSA
This list will be used again in 2018 and 2022.
The typhoon name game
PAGASA started assigning local names to storms in 1963, following a common practice by other weather monitoring organizations around the world.
The United States’ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), for example, said that "familiar names are more easily remembered in the rural areas and that having a PAGASA- assigned name helps to underscore the fact that the cyclone is within PAGASA's AOR and potentially a threat to the Philippines."
However, the World Meteorological Organization and PAGASA retire names if a storm "is so deadly or costly that the future use of its name on a different storm would be inappropriate for reasons of sensitivity." — Joel Locsin/TJD, GMA News
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