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("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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As Vice President JD Vance travels the U.S. supporting Republican candidates in next month’s election, another Vance is on a whirlwind tour off Mexico’s Pacific Coast.
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Vance → travel → Coast
The storm named Vance that strengthened into a hurricane on Friday is not actually named after the vice president, despite a flurry of social media comments linking the two.
Vance just happened to be next on a list of Pacific storm names devised by the World Meteorological Organization, the United Nations’ weather agency.
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Vance → name → Organization
It follows Trudy, which also reached hurricane strength off Mexico last week.
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which → follow → Mexico
Storm systems are named by procedures set by the WMO, and the lists of names are reused every six years.
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lists → name → names
Representatives from the vice president’s office, the WMO and the National Hurricane Center did not immediately respond to email messages Friday.
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Representatives → respond → messages
Social media commenters joked about the hurricane and vice president having the same name.
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hurricane → joke → name
Many of the posts included photos showing the vice president’s face in the eye of the storm.
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Many → include → storm
When Tropical Storm Dolly formed in the Atlantic in August, online reaction was swift and voluminous as it came two days after Dolly Parton’s death.
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it → form → death
It also was the case that the storm was not named after the country music icon.
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storm → name → icon
The WMO manages the naming of tropical storms worldwide.
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WMO → manage → storms
The names come from a set of pre-agreed alphabetical lists decided by five tropical cyclone regional bodies.
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names → come → bodies
Some of the lists are in a rotation, with the same roster of names being used every few years, while others start a new list every year.
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others → use → list
The WMO says naming storms is important because it’s been proven “the fastest way to communicate warnings and raise public awareness and preparedness,” as well as limit confusion when more than one cyclone is moving through.
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cyclone → say → confusion
They can also help with research and record-keeping.
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They → help → research
(The WMO’s Hurricane Committee does not use less common names beginning with Q and U for storms in the eastern North Pacific.
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Committee → use → Pacific
If any other storms form in the eastern North Pacific this year, they would be named Winnie, Xavier, Yolanda and Zeke.
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they → form → Pacific
The next chance for another storm to be named Vance will come in 2032.
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storm → name → 2032
The last Hurricane Vance came in 2014, also off Mexico’s Pacific Coast.
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Vance → come → Coast
The National Hurricane Center called it a rare November Category 2 storm that dissipated before making landfall.
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that → call → landfall
Another Hurricane Vance developed in the same area in 1990 but didn’t hit land, the center said.
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center → develop → land
If storms are particularly devastating, either by death toll or damage, their names can be retired and replaced with new ones on the lists.
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names → retire → lists
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