Replacing Felix

[Andrew92]

Felipe, Fernando, or Francesco for me.

[Chacor]

Don't think they'll use Felipe while Calderon is in power in Mexico.

[Dionne]

Yes request can be made. But final decision is made by the WMO (which also determines names).

lol, I like Fido too (remember, they did name a storm Bob).

Not knowing what "WMO" was an acronym for....I goggled the letters.
It stands for World Meteorological Organization. The opening page has a picture of a hurricane spinning clockwise. All the lights are on and nobody is home.

http://www.wmo.ch/pages/index_en.html

[mitchell]

Yes request can be made. But final decision is made by the WMO (which also determines names).

lol, I like Fido too (remember, they did name a storm Bob).

Not knowing what "WMO" was an acronym for....I goggled the letters.
It stands for World Meteorological Organization. The opening page has a picture of a hurricane spinning clockwise. All the lights are on and nobody is home.

http://www.wmo.ch/pages/index_en.html

looks like Australia...where they DO spin clockwise.

[hial2]

Francesco, definitely.

Francesco= Italian

Francisco= Spanish

[Dionne]

Yes request can be made. But final decision is made by the WMO (which also determines names).

lol, I like Fido too (remember, they did name a storm Bob).

Not knowing what "WMO" was an acronym for....I goggled the letters.
It stands for World Meteorological Organization. The opening page has a picture of a hurricane spinning clockwise. All the lights are on and nobody is home.

http://www.wmo.ch/pages/index_en.html

looks like Australia...where they DO spin clockwise.

Well.....learn something new every day! And.....high pressure areas spin counter clockwise. I suppose it's safe to say that I am "hemisphere challenged"......

[Cyclone1]

Frederic, Fico, or Fabian!

Hope none of those have been used and/or retired before. But what are the chances of that?

[Buck]

Francesco, definitely.

Francesco= Italian

Francisco= Spanish

Right... I know that. I know the rules too, but they seem to be a bit loose with the "replacement name of the same exact ethnic origin" rule sometimes... Opal/Olga, Isadore/Ike. I don't think Felix/Francesco is too out of line. Plus Francisco sounds a lot more like Fran and Frances, two already retired names.

Also, Felipe wouldn't work as we already have a Philippe on the 2011 list.

[Buck]

Frederic, Fico, or Fabian!

Hope none of those have been used and/or retired before. But what are the chances of that?

Frederic and Fabian have both been retired.

[Cyclone1]

Frederic, Fico, or Fabian!

Hope none of those have been used and/or retired before. But what are the chances of that?

Frederic and Fabian have both been retired.

Fico, too. I know, I just felt like being dumb.

[OuterBanker]

BTW, storms actually spin the same way. It's just the way we view them. North hemisphere is viewed north looking south, southern hemisphere is viewed south looking north. If you viewed from either direction looking through the earth both would be turning the same way.

[Buck]

Frederic, Fico, or Fabian!

Hope none of those have been used and/or retired before. But what are the chances of that?

Frederic and Fabian have both been retired.

Fico, too. I know, I just felt like being dumb.

Haha! I didn't even know about Fico... just looked it up. Wow!

[fasterdisaster]

Remember it's extremely likely it will also be a Hispanic name.

I thought of Fernando first(has that been used? I seem to remember a Fernando? Was it just EPAC though? Would it still be able to be used in the Atlantic?)

[Dionne]

BTW, storms actually spin the same way. It's just the way we view them. North hemisphere is viewed north looking south, southern hemisphere is viewed south looking north. If you viewed from either direction looking through the earth both would be turning the same way.

Yeah.....just like "flopping" a set of blueprints!!

[Andrew92]

Remember it's extremely likely it will also be a Hispanic name.

I thought of Fernando first(has that been used? I seem to remember a Fernando? Was it just EPAC though? Would it still be able to be used in the Atlantic?)

The EPAC has had Fernanda over the years, a female name, but no Fernando to my knowledge.

-Andrew92

[HurricaneRobert]

Fidel

No, we don't want to dare any storms to go to Cuba.

Fonsie. Ehhhh

[wxmann_91]

Fabio

[Coredesat]

Fabio

Used just last year in EPAC.

[hial2]

Fidel

No, we don't want to dare any storms to go to Cuba.

Fonsie. Ehhhh

Hurricane Fidel already hit Cuba,and there's a distinct possibility that the name has already been "retired"..
But that's another topic

[Roswell_Atup]

i like the name FERDIE to be chosen