Talk:Cyclone Carmen

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Keep you coats on lads, it looks like a bad witer this year, sirs!--The Lake Ohrid trouts' owner (talk) 11:20, 27 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Since when is 37 million euros equal to 51 trillion US dollars? 74.106.73.117 (talk) 01:40, 31 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Who named this storm "Carmen"?[edit]

The World Meteorological Association, the authority on cyclone names, doesn't generally assign names to extratropical or polar cyclones (which include blizzards, nor'easters, and common rain and wind storms). If they had, this storm's name would have been drawn from the 2010 Atlantic cyclone list, and been named "Virginie".

The name "Carmen" was retired from the Atlantic WMO name list in 1974, after Hurricane Carmen killed eight people in the US and Mexico, and the WMO committee decided to remove the name from the list since Carmen was "so deadly or costly that the future use of its name on a different storm would be inappropriate for obvious reasons of sensitivity." The article also refers to "Polar Storm Becky", whose wikilink simply redirected back to Carmen. "Becky" is also a name from the 1974 WMO name list, but was removed from that list for administrative reasons and replaced by Bonnie in 1980.

Googling "Carmen" and "Becky" along with "storm" or "cyclone" just points back to this article. There is only one citation which actually uses the name "Carmen" in its title or URL, and it's an English-language version of a local German newspaper.

Was this storm actually named "Carmen"? If so, who named it? This Wikipedia article itself appears to be the main online source claiming it was.

--MillingMachine (talk) 11:56, 13 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It was indeed called Carmen by the University of Berlins Adopt a vortex Scheme which names all low and high pressure areas that influence the weather in Europe, unless they were once tropical and named by NHC.Jason Rees (talk) 14:28, 13 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe so, but that doesn't pass WP:COMMONNAME. It should be renamed. Johnbod (talk) 17:00, 17 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]