Australia to rename cyclone to avoid coincidence with prime minister

The cyclone is approaching the northern coast of the continent. Initially, meteorologists wanted to name him Anthony, but later decided to give him the name Alfred. “When the name of a cyclone coincides with the name of an outstanding person of our time, we change the order to the next name beginning with the same letter to avoid confusion,” BoM said. Meteorologists began naming the impending cyclones by male and female names in 1963. Names are given alphabetically. For more than 60 years of this tradition, human names have received the most destructive cyclones in the history of the country: Tracy (Tracy), Larry (Larry), Debbie (Debbie) and others. It is noted that this helps specialists to keep the public aware of what is happening. It also facilitates communication between meteorologists. Russia does not use the practice of naming weather events. In 2015, the Hydrometeorological Center proposed to create a system similar to the Western one. As a result, it was possible to form a list of 50 names, and in the same year the cyclone that covered the south of Russia was named Artemy. However, this case remained the only one, and more weather anomalies were not called human names.

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