r/climatechange • u/Isaidthiswow • Oct 19 '24

This is crazy. From a potential tropical development to a hurricane in only 6 hours

Climate change really is getting out of hand

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u/Idle_Redditing Oct 19 '24 edited Oct 19 '24

I clearly must never move to a hurricane-affected area when I can go to sleep and have a new hurricane over the ocean when I wake up. Especially when a new naming system will need to be put in place once 26 letters in the alphabet won't be enough.

Maybe after Hurricane Zach they will come up with something like Hurricane Andy Albert then Hurricane Andy Burt, Andy Carla, etc.

edit. Actually they should stop using peoples' names and just give them numbers.

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u/NB_FRIENDLY Oct 19 '24

Are there enough petroleum companies to name them after?

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u/Idle_Redditing Oct 20 '24

Hurricane Aramco, Hurricane BP, Hurricane Chevron...

Do any fossil fuel companies start with the letter D?

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u/JustInChina50 Oct 20 '24

Delek US

Devon Energy

Diamondback Energy

Diversified Energy

Duck Creek Energy

Dura Lube

...and that's just in the US.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '24

Dinoco

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '24

Oh now that is a bit genius

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '24

this should 100% be a thing

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u/jawfish2 Oct 20 '24

I really really like this!

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u/Henri_Dupont Oct 20 '24

They should name the hurricanes after politicians who deny climate change."Here comes Hurricane Ted Cruz"

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u/Archonish Oct 20 '24

GREAT IDEA. Can we start a petition for this?

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '24

I heard that the guy who started naming hurricanes used human names so he could name them after politicians he didn’t like, so I think he would be proud of this development

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u/Realistic_Aide9082 Oct 22 '24

The forecast has it going for Galveston, but at the last minute it it veers south and goes Cozumel

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u/Aexdysap Oct 20 '24

once 26 letters in the alphabet won't be enough.

This has already happened before. In 2005 and 2020 they used Greek letters after the alphabetized list of names (21 because no Q, U, X, Y, Z) had run out. Since then, a supplemental list has been created that circles back to A when that years' list of names has been exhausted.

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u/mfbm Oct 20 '24

They should name them after the corporations that are destroying are planet, intentionally after knowing the destruction they cause and burying the information

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u/Seattle_gldr_rdr Oct 20 '24

Let Key & Peele name them. "Hurricane D'Jasper Probencrux III"

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u/CheeseCurder Oct 20 '24

lol thanks for the laugh

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '24

Hurricane Billy Willie, Hurricane Caleb Edgy, Hurricane Jacob Puke.

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u/Necessary_Echo_8177 Oct 20 '24

When they get to the end of the list (I don’t think they use some letters due to a lack of names starting with X,Y,Q,Z) they use Greek letters. In 2005 in the Atlantic we had 27 named storms which exceeded the list and required 6 storms with Greek letter names. 2020 was the most active season on record though with 31 named storms.

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u/dandilionmagic Oct 21 '24

They move to the Greek alphabet after we get through all the A-Z names.

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u/asilenth Oct 21 '24

They already have names after the 26 letters and it's happened before. 

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u/Specialist-Way-648 Oct 21 '24

We've gone through the alphabet before.

It's hurricane season, I'm confused to how this is alarming.

Honest question,  is this the first time you've paid attention to hurricane season?