HOW ARE CYCLONES NAMED?

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• In 2000, a group of nations called WMO/ESCAP (World Meteorological Organisation/United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific) decided to start naming cyclones in the region.
  
  
• After each country sent in suggestions, the WMO/ESCAP Panel on Tropical Cyclones (PTC) finalised the list.
  
  
• The list of 169 cyclone names released by IMD in April 2020 were provided by these countries — 13 suggestions from each of the 13 countries.
  
  

What are the guidelines to adopt names of cyclones?

• The proposed name should be neutral to (a) politics and political figures (b) religious believes, (c) cultures and (d) gender
  
  
• It should be short, the maximum length of the name will be eight letters
  
  
• The names of tropical cyclones over the north Indian Ocean will not be repeated. Once used, it will cease to be used again. Thus, the name should be new.