What's in the name?
For the tropical storms that form in the Atlantic Ocean they have got this unique names. "Dennis" The Menace being the latest to devastate Cuba and the Gulf Coast of the United States.
Similarly they have names for the Typhoons that originate in the Pacific and the Chinese/Japanese seas.
Then, why the hell we dont have names for the cyclones that are formed in the Bay of Bengal?. Every year atleast a couple of these cyclones are formed in the Bay of Bengal near the Tamil Nadu and Andhra pradesh coast.
So it is time that our Met. Department do some work and coin some names for these.
My suggestion is to have names according to the region in which it is formed. Typically, if the cyclone starts from Tamil Nadu coast then lets say we will name it as "Maayandi". If it originates in Andhra then name it as "some" Reddy, so on and so forth.
So let us come up with a list of names from the states along the coromandel coast.
(P.S. It is also good to include Bangladesh. For where ever the cyclone is formed, its eventual destination is Bangladesh!!!)

1 Comments:
Interesting thoughts.
I wonder what a cyclone heading to the nation's capital would be called?
Let that be, I think the cyclone naming exercise will kick up its own "political storm"!
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