April 25, 2016-The World Meteorological Organization’s hurricane committee
announced today it will no longer use the names Erika and Joaquin for future
tropical storms or hurricanes in the Atlantic, and the name Patricia will no
longer be used in the eastern North Pacific. The three storms occurred in
2015.
The WMO will replace Erika with “Elsa”, Joaquin with “Julian” and
Patricia with “Pamela” when the 2015 lists are reused in 2021.
Erika was a tropical storm whose torrential rains inflicted significant
casualties and damage on the Caribbean island of Dominica. More
than a foot of rain fell there and the storm was directly responsible for 30
deaths. In Haiti, one person died due to a mud slide after Erika had
dissipated as a tropical cyclone.
Joaquin was a category 4 hurricane (on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind
Scale), whose strong winds and storm surge devastated Crooked Island,
Acklins, Long Island, Rum Cay, and San Salvador in the central and
southeastern Bahamas in October 2015. Joaquin took the lives of 34 people—
all at sea—including the 33 crewmembers of the cargo ship El Faro, which
sank duringthe storm northeast of Crooked Island. Joaquin is the strongest
October hurricane known to have affected the Bahamas since 1866.
Patricia was a late-season major hurricane that intensified at a rate rarely
observed in a tropical cyclone. It became a category 5 hurricane (on the
Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale) over unusually warm waters to the south
of Mexico, and is now the strongest hurricane on record in the eastern North
Pacific and North Atlantic basins. The hurricane turned north-northeastward
and weakened substantially before making landfall in October 2015 along a
sparsely populated part of the coast of southwestern Mexico as a category 4
hurricane.
The WMO reuses storm names every six years for both the Atlantic and eastern
North Pacific basins, unless retired because the storm was so deadly or
costly that the future use of the name would be insensitive.
Patricia is the 13th name to be removed from the eastern North Pacific list.
In comparison, Erika and Joaquin are the 79th and 80th name to be removed
from the Atlantic list.
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forecasts and warnings for both the Atlantic and eastern North Pacific
basins.
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┌─────────┬────────┬───────┬────┐
│除名名稱　　　　 │替代名稱　　　　│一分鐘最大風速│最低氣壓│
├─────────┴────────┴───────┴────┤
│　　　　　　　 　　　　　　　北大西洋　 　　　　　　　　 │
├─────────┬────────┬───────┬────┤
│艾麗卡（Erika）　 │艾　莎（Elsa）　│45kts（TS） 　│1001hPa │
├─────────┴────────┴───────┴────┤
│重創多明尼加，30人罹難，另有4.82億美元之經濟損失。　 　　　　│
├─────────┬────────┬───────┬────┤
│華金（Joaquin） 　│茱麗亞（Julian）│135kts（C4）　│931hPa　│
├─────────┴────────┴───────┴────┤
│重創巴哈馬中部、東南部一帶，並造成一艘船隻沉沒，33人罹難。　　│
├───────────────────────────────┤
│　　　　　　　　　　　　　 東北太平洋 　　　　　　　　　 │
├─────────┬────────┬───────┬────┤
│派崔莎（Patricia）│波密拉（Pamela）│185kts（C5）　│872hPa │
├─────────┴────────┴───────┴────┤
│颶風強度刷新紀錄，並且於墨西哥附近造成部分損害。　　 　　　　│
└───────────────────────────────┘