2012 name retired=Sandy replaced with Sara (Issac stays)

[CrazyC83]

Names NOT available:

Male I names - Ian, Ignacio, Igor, Ike, Isaac, Isaias, Isidore, Irvin, Ivo

Female S names - Sally, Sandra, Sandy, Selma, Shary, Sonia

[Hurricane_Luis]

Beryl, Debby, Isaac and Sandy

Isaac and Sandy will probably get retired, but Beryl and Debby have a good chance

[CrazyC83]

Beryl, Debby, Isaac and Sandy

Isaac and Sandy will probably get retired, but Beryl and Debby have a good chance

I highly doubt Beryl or Debby will be retired. Most likely (barring a November monster) we will have 1 or 2 names retired - Sandy certainly, Isaac good shot but not a guarantee.

[CrazyC83]

We should know the verdict around April 12.

[xtyphooncyclonex]

In the west Pacific (off-topic),
I would request the names HAIKUI and BOPHA.

HAIKUI - hardly hit China and the Philippines. The Philippines was SEVERELY hit by the monsoon enhanced from this system. Left over US$2 billion in damage.

BOPHA - over 1000 casualties and US$1.04 billion in damage in the PHILIPPINES ALONE. The 9th deadliest storm and the COSTLIEST storm in the Philippines.

(BTW, the name Pablo, PAGASA's name for Bopha has already been retired.)

[xtyphooncyclonex]

In the west Pacific (off-topic),
I would suggest the names HAIKUI and BOPHA to be retired...

HAIKUI - hardly hit China and the Philippines. The Philippines was SEVERELY hit by the monsoon enhanced from this system. Left over US$2 billion in damage.

BOPHA - over 1000 casualties and US$1.04 billion in damage in the PHILIPPINES ALONE. The 9th deadliest storm and the COSTLIEST storm in the Philippines.

(BTW, the name Pablo, PAGASA's name for Bopha has already been retired.)

[HurricaneBill]

In the west Pacific (off-topic),
I would request the names HAIKUI and BOPHA.

HAIKUI - hardly hit China and the Philippines. The Philippines was SEVERELY hit by the monsoon enhanced from this system. Left over US$2 billion in damage.

BOPHA - over 1000 casualties and US$1.04 billion in damage in the PHILIPPINES ALONE. The 9th deadliest storm and the COSTLIEST storm in the Philippines.

(BTW, the name Pablo, PAGASA's name for Bopha has already been retired.)

I agree on both. I also think the Philippines should request Fengshen to be retired.

[Hurricane Jed]

Isaac and Sandy are the only candidates. Everything else can take a hike. Sandy killed people in Cuba, that is more or less automatic grounds for retirement with them. Replacement names? I wanna see Ichabod and Sylvia.

[Iune]

In the west Pacific (off-topic),
I would request the names HAIKUI and BOPHA.

HAIKUI - hardly hit China and the Philippines. The Philippines was SEVERELY hit by the monsoon enhanced from this system. Left over US$2 billion in damage.

BOPHA - over 1000 casualties and US$1.04 billion in damage in the PHILIPPINES ALONE. The 9th deadliest storm and the COSTLIEST storm in the Philippines.

(BTW, the name Pablo, PAGASA's name for Bopha has already been retired.)

I agree on both. I also think the Philippines should request Fengshen to be retired.

As far as I remember, the typhoon committee meets for retiring typhoon names every two years; the Philippines didn't request Fengshen's retirement at that meeting.

[HurricaneBill]

According to its Wikipedia article, Bopha has been retired.

[Hurricane Jed]

Wikipedia isn't that accurate. According to this link it hasn't been retired http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/B3.html. But has according to this http://kidlat.pagasa.dost.gov.ph/genmet/rpnames.html or at least Pablo has as it seems to have two names. Sorry don't know too much about naming systems in the WPAC.

[Reesie]

Let me clear a few things up here:

The WMO Typhoon Committee meets every year and retired Bopha at its last session at the start of the month.
The name Fengshen will not be retired and probably wont be until at least the next time the name is used - its a bit like Gordon 94 which should have gone but didnt for watever reason.
NOAA's Hurricane FAQ is only generally updated once a year in the run up to the Atlantic Hurricane season
The name Pablo has also been retired and was retired after it impacted the Phillippines.

References:
http://www.typhooncommittee.org/45th/Do ... vision.pdf Page 11

[smithandrewskij978]

I am just wondering, if Isaac and Sandy get retired, which hurricane names would be good replacements for those 2 names?

[CrazyC83]

Pending WMO conference approval (likely to be unanimous), Sandy will be retired by the US - but NOT Isaac, unless another country requests it (who else has a case?)

http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/tcp/d ... -35_en.doc

Proposed replacement names: Sara, Susan, Sheri

[CrazyC83]

About that list: NO to Sheri, since it sounds like "Shary" on the 2016 list. Susan seems the best choice of the three that the NHC has recommended, we'll see if the WMO approves. Unless someone else creates their own retirement case (Cuba?).

[Cleveland Kent Evans]

Pending WMO conference approval (likely to be unanimous), Sandy will be retired by the US - but NOT Isaac, unless another country requests it (who else has a case?)

http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/tcp/d ... -35_en.doc

Proposed replacement names: Sara, Susan, Sheri

Oh good grief. Who on earth is tasked with coming up with the replacement names at RCMC? As has already been pointed out, Sheri is just an impossible suggestion because we already have Shary on the lists! It would seem to me to be the most basic criterion that you don't have two names on the lists that are just alternative spellings with the same pronunciation! (Yes, I know that in the UK and even in parts of New England Sheri and Shary wouldn't be pronounced quite the same, but they definitely would be said identically in most of the USA, including Miami.)

And as I've said before Sara is a bad idea because Tara is on the ENP list for the same year.

Whoever came up with those proposed replacements just isn't paying any attention to the task and is not taking the job seriously.

Please, please let them pick Susan as the replacement!

[vbhoutex]

Pending WMO conference approval (likely to be unanimous), Sandy will be retired by the US - but NOT Isaac, unless another country requests it (who else has a case?)

http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/tcp/d ... -35_en.doc

Proposed replacement names: Sara, Susan, Sheri

Oh good grief. Who on earth is tasked with coming up with the replacement names at RCMC? As has already been pointed out, Sheri is just an impossible suggestion because we already have Shary on the lists! It would seem to me to be the most basic criterion that you don't have two names on the lists that are just alternative spellings with the same pronunciation! (Yes, I know that in the UK and even in parts of New England Sheri and Shary wouldn't be pronounced quite the same, but they definitely would be said identically in most of the USA, including Miami.)

And as I've said before Sara is a bad idea because Tara is on the ENP list for the same year.

Whoever came up with those proposed replacements just isn't paying any attention to the task and is not taking the job seriously.

Please, please let them pick Susan as the replacement!

Uh, no! LOL!! I have enough to deal with with two Susan's with my same last name(wife and DIL).

[Hurricane Jed]

Sara or Sarah really isn't that bad of an idea. The name Tara hasn't been used since 1982 and this year was the first year List 4 for the Atlantic reached the T named storm. The chances of both lists reaching the T and S named storm respectively are extremely slim and them coexisting at the same time would be even rarer to occur.

[HurricaneRyan]

Sheri? Oh god...my ex-crush's mother has that name. That is gonna be awkward for me.

Go with Sara please.

[cycloneye]

Sometime this week the decision will be made by the committee so stay tuned.