'쁘라삐룬' 가고 '태풍 마리아' 온다…이름에 숨겨진 비밀은?<br /><br /> Prapiroon, the season's seventh typhoon just passed the Korean peninsula.<br />Some forecasts show Typhoon Maria could be on its way.<br />At this point, you maybe wondering how these forces of nature are labelled.<br />Kim Mok-yeon sheds light on the naming system. <br /> Tropical cyclones are named in order to avoid confusion when communicating with the public as more than one tropical cyclone can exist at the same time. <br />The naming of typhoons began in Australia the late 1880s.<br />Meteorologists back then named typhoons after political figures. <br />But in 1944 during the Second World War 2, U.S. military forecasters started to name typhoons after their wives and girlfriends.<br />From the late 1970's the scope of typhoon names was broadened.<br /> Currently, in the Northwestern Pacific, names are selected sequentially from a list of 140 names submitted by the 14 member states of the ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee. <br /> Once all the names have been used, the committee uses the names again in the same order.<br />For such reasons, the recent Typhoon Prapiroon, which has a name submitted by Thailand... was the second typhoon with that name. The name 'Prapiroon' was first used in 2000.<br /> Of the 140 names, South Korea has submitted 10 names, including Gaemi, Nari, Jangmi and Noru, mostly referring to flowers and animals.<br />Now with the 8th typhoon of the season having been named Maria from the U.S., the next typhoon of the season will be named Son-Thinh from Vietnam, followed by Ampil from Cambodia. <br /><br />Kim Mok-yeon, Arirang News. <br />
