At about 23:00 on the evening of June 12, Typhoon "MiaoBai" landed on the coastal surface of dapeng Peninsula in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, and the maximum wind near the center was 9 (23 m/s) at the time of landfall, and the storm mode was opened in eastern Guangdong. From the 12th to the 14th, Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi and other places will enter a period of concentrated heavy rainfall, and the public needs to strengthen the prevention of secondary disasters such as flash floods and mudslides.
Shenzhen er who goes to work and class today, you must be strong!
To tell the truth, when you see the news of Typhoon "Miaobai", your first reaction is what does the word "Miaobai" mean? How did it come about? In the spirit of tracing the source, the author checked it out, the original "Miaobai" English name Merpok, from Malaysia, the name originally meant to refer to a bird. Looking at the radar echo map is really like a bird, is there any? ↓↓↓
As early as 2011, Severe Tropical Storm No. 10 was named after Miaobai. So, why do typhoons have duplicate naming? This involves typhoon nomenclature.
Before the introduction of internationally unified naming rules, the countries and regions concerned had different names for tropical storms, and the same typhoon often had several names.
In order to avoid name confusion, in 1997, the 30th meeting of the Typhoon Committee of the World Meteorological Organization decided that tropical cyclones in the northwest Pacific And South China Seas should be named in the Asian style, and decided to use the new naming method from 1 January 2000. The naming table has a total of 140 names, provided by 11 member states and 3 regions of the Asia-Pacific region to which the World Meteorological Organization belongs. The 140 names are reused sequentially year after year, so typhoon No. 10 of 2011 collides with typhoon No. 2 of this year.
These names rarely have the meaning of disaster, and most of them have the meaning of elegance and peace, such as jasmine, rose, pearl, lotus, color cloud, etc., which seem to be not in harmony with typhoon disasters. This is because of the hope: if the typhoon comes, it can effectively alleviate the local drought and bring it abundant precipitation, and in general, the typhoon name is still extremely beautiful.
This nomenclature also has a provision: when a tropical cyclone name is used, causing significant damage to one or more member states, the name will be permanently removed and discontinued. Member countries that have suffered losses may appeal to the World Meteorological Organization to remove them from their names.
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