Iceresistance wrote:I've always thought that the requirements for a WPAC retirement is if the same named system is catastrophic for the 2nd time.
I'd think so too, but if that was the case there wouldn't be any retired named during 2000-2004/2005, because that's when the names from the new list were first used. Vamei, Chataan, Rusa, Pongsona, Yanyan, Imbudo, Maemi, Sudal, Tingting, Rananim, Matsa, and Nabi were all retired after the first time they were used. First-time-use replacement names as well, like Fanapi. Maybe they changed the standard? Would be very weird one imo.
aspen wrote:For Japan, part of the reason is that they don’t even use typhoon names there. Systems are just called “Typhoon #” or something. So even if a system were to cause $20+ billion in damages there, they probably wouldn’t retire it because barely anyone knew its name. However, there’s no reason for the Philippines to not request Rai to be retired, because they’ve retired storms like Kai-tak with less than $100 million USD in damages and <100 fatalities; Rai had over 400 fatalities and $1 billion USD in damages.
The WPac is just a mess with tropical cyclone naming and tracking.
Makes sense, but I'm pretty sure Japan requested the retirement of Hagibis and Faxai, so I don't see why Jebi had any reason not to be retired like those 2. And yeah, WPAC is a mess.