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Global Weather Agencies Run Out of Names, Consider Numbers
Storm '47b' would be 'less personal'.
Clouds, unnamed. Photo: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from Greenbelt, MD, USA, “Hubble Peers into the Storm (29563971405)”, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
GENEVA — Fictional meteorologists say names are being used up so fast they may move to numbers. The public prefers names like “Boelo” because “you can shout at a name”.
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