Today's Marine Weather Bulletin

Typhoon is a type of tropical cyclone. Meteorologically, typhoons specifically refer to tropical cyclones that occur in the western North Pacific (west of the international date line, including the South China Sea) and have near-center maximum sustained wind speeds of level 12 or above (ie, more than 32.6 meters per second).
As for tropical cyclones that occur in the Atlantic Ocean or the eastern North Pacific and reach the same intensity, they are called hurricanes.
According to the International Meteorological Organization, tropical cyclones occurring in the western North Pacific and the South China Sea are classified into five categories. The classifications and names published by various places are sometimes slightly different.
Because multiple typhoons may appear on the ocean at the same time, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center set up by the U.S. military on Guam (now moved to Hawaii) used to name each typhoon during World War II. The original names were all female, but male names were added in 1979. Since 2000, the naming of typhoons has been changed to the Typhoon Committee of the International Meteorological Organization. The 14 members of the Typhoon Committee (China, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, Cambodia, Vietnam, etc.) each provide 10 names for the current names of typhoons in the Northwest Pacific and South China Sea, divided into five sets of lists.
The actual naming work is left to the Japan Meteorological Agency (Tokyo Regional Professional Meteorological Center) in the region. Whenever the Japan Meteorological Agency determines a tropical cyclone in the northwest Pacific or the South China Sea to have tropical storm intensity, it is given a name based on the list and a four-digit number. The first two digits in the number are the year, and the last two digits are the order in which tropical storms were generated in that year. For example, 0312 is Tropical Storm No. 12 in 2003 (when it reaches severe tropical storm intensity, it is called Severe Tropical Storm No. 12; when it reaches typhoon intensity, it is called Typhoon No. 12), its English name is KROVANH. The Chinese name is "Kerowang"; 0313 is Tropical Storm No. 13 in 2003, the English name is DUJUAN, and the Chinese name is "Dujuan". The Chinese name of the typhoon was determined by the my country Meteorological Administration after consultation with the meteorological departments of Hong Kong and Macau. (Xue Xiaole)
Source: People's Daily Online - Global Times
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