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At its 46th session in March 2024, the Hurricane Committee discussed potentially establishing criteria for the retirement of significant tropical cyclone names and decided that the WMO Advisory Group on Tropical Cyclones (AG-TC) should provide guidance on the use of common names as well as retired names from other basins.[1] As a result, the AG-TC decided in May 2024 to investigate various issues associated with tropical cyclone naming, including potential criteria for the retirement of names, the use of duplicate names and the possible reuse of names after a specific amount of time.[2] A task force was subsequently established to investigate the issues further, which found that 26 names appeared on two or more lists, while some names that had been retired in one basin appeared on active lists in another basin.[3] They also noted that retirement practices varied widely, with some regions retiring every single name that was used, while other areas only retired the most significant names with no specific criteria.[3] As a result, the task force asked each of the five WMO tropical cyclone committees to make a list of the strongest, deadliest and costliest tropical cyclones in each basin so that a worldwide global no-go list could be made.[4] The task force also encouraged the committees to talk about when a retired name could be reintroduced and questioned whether the retirement criteria should be standardised or applied globally.[4] At its 47th session, the Hurricane Committee established a task force of its own, with the remit to explore retirement criteria in more depth and circulated a survey to members on possible thresholds, including economic losses, fatalities, intensity, or secondary impacts such as storm surge and rainfall.[1] As a result, at its 48th session the Hurricane Committee, the Committee adopted
The representative of Australia to the RA V Tropical Cyclone Committee asked if the topic had been discussed with social scientists and noted that establishing well-defined thresholds might be complicated without considering social impacts beyond technical thresholds. The representative of South Africa to the RA I Tropical Cyclone Committee expressed concern over the reuse of a name, if it hadn't caused any damages previously and feared that citizens might end up ignoring warnings. As a result, the RA I Tropical Cyclone Committee established a task force of its own to explore the issues.
In response to the WMO's Advisory Group on Tropical Cyclones investigating various issues
- 1 2 RA IV Hurricane Committee - Forty-sixth Session - Final Report (Report). 31 May 2024. p. 39. Cite error: The named reference "HC 46" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ↑ Sixth Meeting of the Advisory Group on Tropical Cyclones (AG-TC-6). Advisory Group on Tropical Cyclones. p. 7.
- 1 2 Seventh Meeting of the Advisory Group on Tropical Cyclones (AG-TC-7). Advisory Group on Tropical Cyclones. p. 7-8.
- 1 2 Eighth Meeting of the Advisory Group on Tropical Cyclones (AG-TC-8). Advisory Group on Tropical Cyclones. p. 7-8.