From Aghon to Zosimo, here are the names for tropical cyclones that will form within or enter the Philippine Area of Responsibility in 2024
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MANILA, Philippines – The country’s weather bureau assigns local names to all tropical cyclones that form within or enter the Philippine Area of Responsibility. The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration has four sets of names that are used alternately.Each set contains 25 names that are arranged alphabetically.PAGASA also prepared four auxiliary sets, in case there are more than 25 tropical cyclones in a particular year. Each auxiliary set has 10 names.
The international names come from a list contributed to by several countries, including the Philippines.When a tropical cyclone causes at least 300 deaths and/or P1 billion worth of damage to agriculture and infrastructure in the Philippines, its name gets decommissioned or removed.For the 2024 set, the new names are Aghon, Querubin, Romina, and Upang.
They replaced 2020’s Typhoon Ambo , Typhoon Quinta , Super Typhoon Rolly , and Typhoon Ulysses , respectively.
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