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Part of what's funny is that Americans named the Gulf of Mexico as they did because they were *already* in America. Of all the various gulfs available to them, *that* as the one adjacent to Mexico.

This renaming is as though we in the UK renamed the North Sea and the Irish Sea both to The British Sea.

llewelly 10mo ago

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Related: a few examples of the USA's National Hurricane Center (part of the National Weather Service and in turn part of NOAA ) continuing to use "Gulf of Mexico" (as they should):

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATWDAT+shtml/140554_MIATWDAT.shtml?

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/?atlc

I hope this lasts, though I confess I really don't expect it to. I am really worried about the potential for confusion in severe weather incidents; seemingly minor alterations in messaging have caused much confusion and loss of life in the past.

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llewelly 10mo ago

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(For example, the meteorological designation of Hurricane Sandy changing from tropical to non-tropical 6 hours before landfall caused a lot of confusion, even though most hurricanes undergo transition from tropical to non-tropical at a similar latitude.)