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Storm Naming Panels Worldwide Agree to Swap Lists ‘For Variety’

Fictional proposal: Typhoon Morag, Hurricane Shuggie.

A weather map, eclectic.

A weather map, eclectic. Photo: European Space Agency, “Arctic Weather Satellite ESA23198428”, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 igo

GENEVA — A fictional international summit has proposed swapping storm names between continents. Scotland would get Hurricane Bertrand; the Caribbean would receive Storm Senga. Diplomats called it “bold”.

The real story: Fictional.

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