Run for cover - Abigail is coming!

[00:00.11] Go home and shut all the windows because Abigail is coming! In this case, Abigail is not a very angry lady, but the name of a storm chosen by the public in an initiative by the UK weather service, the Met Office, and its Irish counterpart Met Eireann.回家关上所有的窗户，因为阿比盖尔要来了！在这种情况下，阿比盖尔不是一位非常愤怒的女士，而是公众在英国气象局、英国气象局及其爱尔兰同行 Met Eireann 的一项倡议中选择的风暴名称。

[00:19.14] In the last few months they have compiled a list of names suggested by ordinary people. 在过去的几个月里，他们编制了一份普通人建议的名字清单。

[00:24.65] In alphabetical order, Barney is next, followed by Clodagh.按字母顺序，Barney 紧随其后，Clodagh 紧随其后。

[00:29.40] You might find Katie down the line, and also Nigel.你可能会找到凯蒂，还有奈杰尔。

[00:33.16] The idea of giving peoples' names to storms is to make people more aware that bad weather is on its way – and it is more understandable than giving them the latitude and longitude.给暴风雨命名的想法是让人们更加意识到恶劣的天气即将来临——这比给他们提供纬度和经度更容易理解。

[00:45.18] Following a convention by the US, no storms will be given names beginning with the less common letters: Q, U, X, Y and Z.按照美国的惯例，不会给风暴命名以不太常见的字母开头：Q、U、X、Y 和 Z。

[00:55.20] The National Hurricane Center in Miami has officially been naming the Atlantic's tropical cyclones since 1953 – men's names were included in the 1970s. 自 1953 年以来，迈阿密的国家飓风中心正式命名大西洋的热带气旋——男性的名字在 1970 年代被包括在内。

[01:06.47] But the list is maintained and updated by the World Meteorological Organization, a UN agency based in Geneva.但该名单由设在日内瓦的联合国机构世界气象组织维护和更新。

[01:14.23] Names of storms considered too catastrophic are 'retired' and replaced. 被认为过于灾难性的风暴名称将被“退休”并替换。

[01:19.23] No more Katrina – the name of the devastating hurricane that killed nearly 2,000 in the US in 2005. 不再有卡特里娜飓风——2005 年在美国造成近 2,000 人死亡的毁灭性飓风的名称。

[01:27.00] Cyclones are upgraded to hurricanes if they reach 119km/h.如果达到 119 公里/小时，旋风将升级为飓风。

[01:33.26] But what happens when there are too many storms in the world in a particular year? 但是，当世界上某一年的风暴太多时会发生什么？

[01:38.26] Julian Heming, tropical predictions scientist at the Met Office in the UK, explains: "If the remainder of the season is very active, it's not out of the question we'll have to... start using letters from the Greek alphabet."英国气象局的热带预测科学家 Julian Heming 解释说：“如果这个季节的剩余时间非常活跃，我们将不得不……开始使用希腊字母表中的字母。”