Frank and Ernest by Thaves for August 23, 2012
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Transcript:
Teacher: Many cultures assign gender to natural phenomena, like "Mother Nature" and "Old Man Winter". Any other examples? Frank: "Broad Daylight"!
Saucy1121: No, bmonk was closer (although it was not girl friends, but that they were, after all, HERricanes). Now we have HISsicanes as well (and about time). There are five lists which are repeated in a cycle, but particularly destructive ones are retired and new names added to the lists to replace them. Also, now tropical storms (c. 60-75 knot) cyclonic winds are named as true hurricanes, since before, the list was only run a third through. English, Spanish, and French names are used. (What, no Dutch? After all, there are Aruba, Bellaire, Curaçao, Surinam, and Saant Martin.)
About the same time as hissicanes came on the scene typhoons in the eastern Pacific got called hurricanes too. Western Pacific ones occur year ’round and so the lists run consecutively and a whole pile of languages are used. In both cases, some letters are skipped for lack of enough names.