NEW DELHI: Aftermath of all Tauktae are still new, and India is bracing for another cyclone… now around the eastern seaboard. ‘Yaas’ is predicted to lash Odisha-Bengal during the upcoming few days. Tauktae, you’re most likely awarethat, was a title selected by Myanmar. The term translates into’exceptionally outspoken lizard.’ So who called’Yaas’? And what exactly does it imply? The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) preserves rotating lists of titles that are acceptable for every tropical cyclone basin. Names of cyclones from the northern Indian Ocean-Bay of the Bengal-Arabian Sea area are determined from the WMO and the United Nation’s Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) board on tropical cyclones. The 13 member states of the ESCAP panel include India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Pakistan, the Maldives, Oman, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Iran, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Yemen. Each nation, in alphabetical order, has to choose a title for the upcoming cyclonic method to form from the area. So after Myanmar’s Tauktae, the following name on the record had been Oman’s’Yaas.’ It is a Persian term, which means Jasmin, a blossom flower. A somewhat improbable title for a monster storm, why do not you believe? No matter how the titles of cyclones to come are determined well ahead of time. There’s an accepted list of titles for over-150 cyclonic storms to form within the area. Sothe cyclonic system which will form following’Yaas’ would soon be called’Gulab,” a title selected by Pakistan; and the one then -‘Shaheen,” from Qatar.
Cyclone titles: Tauktae, Yaas… what is next? Gulab & Shaheen
