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- 36th Session - 2009 - Mr Abdul Rahim bin Salim Al-Harami, Permanent Representative of Oman with the WMO, commended the panels decision to name tropical cyclones and noted that national, regional and global media had picked up remarkably on Tropical Cyclones Gonu, Sidr and Nargis. He also suggested that the Panel considered devising a permanent and appropriate mechanism for updating the table of the tropical cyclone names.[1]
Mahasen[edit]
During May 2013, the IMD named a deep depression: Mahasen, after the system had developed into a cyclonic storm.[2][3] However, there were various protests over the name by nationalists and officials in Sri Lanka, who claimed that the cyclone had been named after King Mahasen.[4][5][6] It was also claimed that it was wrong to name a cyclone after Mahasen, as he was a king who had brought peace and prosperity to the island nation.[4][5][6] As a result Sri Lankan agencies referred to the system as a nameless cyclone and requested that international agencies do the same.[4][5] The Sri Lankan Department of Meteorology subsequently publicly apologised for the naming of Mahasen and stated that the names "were merely proposed as Sri Lankan names and their selection did not have any basis, explanation or intention."[6] The Met Department subsequently revised its list of submitted names and substituted the names: Priya, Asiri, Gigum and Soba with Ashobaa, Maarutha, Gaja and Pawan, while Cyclone Mahashen was later renamed Viyaru because of the controversy.[7][8][9][10]
- ^ WMO/ESCAP Panel on Tropical Cyclones Thirty-Sixth Session Final Report (PDF) (Report). World Meteorological Organization. July 5, 2005. p. 16. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 17, 2012. Retrieved August 13, 2023.
{{cite report}}:|archive-date=/|archive-url=timestamp mismatch; July 29, 2012 suggested (help) - ^ "BMD Newsletter" (PDF). Bangladesh Meteorological Department. July 2013. p. 1. Archived (PDF) from the original on 31 October 2014. Retrieved 31 October 2014.
{{cite web}}:|archive-date=/|archive-url=timestamp mismatch; 7 February 2014 suggested (help) - ^ A Preliminary Report on Cyclonic storm, Mahasen over Bay of Bengal (May 10-16, 2013) (PDF) (Report). India Meteorological Department. Retrieved 31 October 2014.
- ^ a b c "SL unhappy with cyclone name 'Mahasen'". Nagaland Post. May 14, 2013. Archived from the original on May 14, 2013. Retrieved October 31, 2014.
- ^ a b c Edirisinghe, Dasun (May 13, 2013). "Met. Dept. withdraws popular king's name from storm". The Island. Archived from the original on October 31, 2014. Retrieved May 16, 2013.
- ^ a b c "Sri Lanka official sorry for name of cyclone Mahasen". BBC News. May 28, 2013. Archived from the original on October 31, 2014. Retrieved October 31, 2014.
- ^ Mudalige, Disana (May 21, 2013). "Met Dept to amend cyclone names". Daily News. Archived from the original on November 14, 2014. Retrieved November 14, 2014.
- ^ Report of the Panel on Tropical Cyclones. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific Seventieth session Bangkok, August 4-8, 2014. Untied Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. April 1, 2014. p. 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 31, 2014. Retrieved October 31, 2014.
- ^ Tropical Cyclone Operational Plan for the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea: 2014accessdate=August 7, 2014 (PDF) (2014 ed.). World Meteorological Organization.
- ^ Biswas, Soutik (October 11, 2014). "How Cyclone Hudhud got its name". BBC News. Archived from the original on October 31, 2014. Retrieved October 31, 2014.