Sunday, December 07, 2014
Typhoon names
Hagupit? These Pacific typhoons have the oddest set of names. Some seem Chinese, some seem Japanese, some Korean, some maybe Thai, some just sound like gibberish. That can't be the way it's done, can it?
Yes. That's exactly how it's done. There's a repeating table of names, with each major country that gets hit by typhoons contributing a certain number of names.
Here.
Turns out that Hagupit is one of the Tagalog names. Not very nice to hit the people who named you! Maybe Mr Hagupit doesn't like his name.
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