City Central Meteorological Observatory call for new typhoons Guan Guo feet was nominated for the typhoon names | | tournament _ news

People's daily Beijing, September 6, according to the China Central Television News Centre official Tweet "@ CCTV news" news by super Typhoon "sea swallow" destruction of huge, the World Meteorological Organization has decided to no longer use "sea swallow" name other typhoons. Central Meteorological Observatory decided to levy new typhoon names, as of today at 11 o'clock, "Pegasus", "jellyfish" and "owner," the top three. In addition, the "city management" officials "team" were nominated, Netizen joked, "is called ' football ', lacks attack power."

　　Related:

Super Typhoon "sea swallow" was removed from the national weather service for the storm's new name

People's daily in Beijing on September 4, according to the China Meteorological Administration Web site, the 4th, held a news conference to launch the "I to name typhoons" recruitment activities. The event until October 31. From September 4 to October 10, the public vote on 30 alternative names; from October 10 to October 20, the China Meteorological Administration experts from the number of votes the top 10 typhoons screened 3 alternate name name, and identify alternate interpretation of the name content from October 20 to October 31, announced the voting results and the award-winning public lists.

This recruitment activity stems from "sea swallow" was removed. In November 2013, the super Typhoon "petrel" is launching in the Philippines, and caused great economic losses and casualties on the ground. ESCAP (ESCAP)/World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in accordance with the relevant provisions of the 46th session of the Typhoon Committee, decided to include "sea swallow" from the Typhoon Committee in the Northwest Pacific and South China Sea tropical cyclone naming list deleted, and calls for China to submit a new typhoon names to fill the resulting vacancies.

November 25, 1997 until December 1, ESCAP and WMO is a member of the 30th session of the Typhoon Committee held in Hong Kong in meeting decided to standardize the naming of Typhoon, tropical cyclone over the Northwest Pacific and South China Sea, using Asian names. Naming method are: advance the development of a named table, and then the cycle is repeated year after year, in order to use it. The naming table a total of 140 names, from Cambodia, China, North Korea, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Laos, Macao, Malaysia, 14 members of the Typhoon Committee, 10 names were provided by the County: the Dragon King, Wukong, the Jade Rabbit, swallow, Aeolus, Neptune, azaleas, electric, Hippocampus and begonia.

It is reported that the Western Pacific typhoon names little catastrophes of the significance, the Commission provides guidelines for selecting names are: elegant, peaceful means, cannot be named for States in trouble, did not involve commercial, so countries chosen for its natural beauty, animals and plants to name a typhoon. Public from "Goddess," "Skylark," "Indus" and "Lark", "Pegasus", 30 selected alternate names like, click on the vote.

(Edit: SN067)
21:42 on September 06, 2014
People's daily online