Naming
The name Fengshen was submitted to the ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee by the People’s Republic of China for use from January 1, 2000 and is the Mandarin Chinese name for the God of Wind. This was the second time that the name Fengshen had been used in the Western Pacific, as it had previously been used in the 2002 Pacific typhoon season. The name Fengshen was not retired by the ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee.
The name Frank has been assigned to a tropical cyclone 11 times worldwide. It has been used by PAGASA once before, within the 2004 Pacific typhoon season, and was assigned to Typhoon Conson. On June 27 after Typhoon Fengshen had dissipated PAGASA announced that they would be retiring the name Frank at the end of the season and would not be used to name another depression in the PAGASA Area of responsibility. On June 2012 the name selected by PAGASA to replace Frank was Ferdie.
Read more about this topic: Typhoon Fengshen (2008)
Famous quotes containing the word naming:
“The night is itself sleep
And what goes on in it, the naming of the wind,
Our notes to each other, always repeated, always the same.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“See, see where Christ’s blood streams in the firmament!
One drop would save my soul—half a drop! ah, my Christ!—
Ah, rend not my heart for naming of my Christ!—
Yet will I call on him!—O, spare me, Lucifer!—
Where is it now? ‘T is gone; and see where God
Stretcheth out his arm, and bends his ireful brows!—
Mountains and hills, come, come and fall on me,
And hide me from the heavy wrath of God!”
—Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)
“Husband,
who am I to reject the naming of foods
in a time of famine?”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)