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SummerSnow

(12,608 posts)
Fri Apr 17, 2015, 07:38 PM Apr 2015

‘Isis’ Removed From UN List of Hurricane Names

http://time.com/3826911/isis-hurricane-name/
Tessa Berenson @tcberenson 1:41 PM ET Updated: 1:56 PM ET

It was replaced with Ivette

Don’t expect Hurricane Isis to hit anytime soon.

The U.N. has removed “Isis” from its official list of future hurricane names, deeming it inappropriate because of the rise of the militant group the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS), Reuters reports.

Clare Nullis, spokesperson for the U.N.’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO), said it’s not unprecedented for the group to strike hurricane names.

“Names are knocked off the list, which rotates every six years, if they are considered inappropriate if they caused too much damage and too much death,” Nullis said.

She told TIME how the process works to take a name off the list: “There was consensus on this. These sorts of decisions are always taken by consensus, there is never a vote.”

The WMO Hurricane Committee has replaced the name Isis with Ivette.


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In more news, the godess ISIS' name will be replaced with INGRID.
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‘Isis’ Removed From UN List of Hurricane Names (Original Post) SummerSnow Apr 2015 OP
Well, as your picture shows, her name wasn't Isis; it was Aset Scootaloo Apr 2015 #1
 

Scootaloo

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1. Well, as your picture shows, her name wasn't Isis; it was Aset
Fri Apr 17, 2015, 08:01 PM
Apr 2015

The Greeks mangled Egyptian names... Which I guess is forgivable, considering that they were two entirely different language families, already separated by several thousand or even tens of thousands of years...

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