Cyclone name list in Bay of Bengal and Indian Ocean

The cyclone name list in the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean are provided by different countries. Behalf of India IMD(Indian Meteorological Department) would provide the cyclone name.

Indian Meteorological Department (of the Indian Ministry of Earth Sciences) /IMD,

established in the year 1875, have the mandate to provide weather advisories to the following 7 countries besides India:

Bangladesh,
Maldives,
Myanmar,
Oman,
Pakistan,
Thailand and
Sri Lanka.

In the beginning, the Storms had not been named.

The numbers and technical names were given to the storms/cyclones had been difficult to identify and thus meteorologists started naming the storms/cyclones.

And the storms/cyclones had been named arbitrarily.
Initially, the names had been of males and then the storms/cyclones
had been named with ‘feminine’ names.

In order to have an organized and efficient naming system,
the meteorologists decided to identify storms using names
from a list arranged alphabetically.The ‘Tropical cyclones’ in the ‘Bay of Bengal’ and the ‘Arabian Sea’
are being named since 2004.

The above 8 countries including India would choose 8 names each and ‘the stock of the 64 names for the storms/Cyclones’ will be used in rotation, in cycles of 6 years each.

India has given by the following names for the Storms/Cyclones:
1.    Agni,
2.    Akash,
3.    Bijli,
4.    Jal,
5.    Lehar,
6.    Megh,
7.    Sagar,
8.    Vayu