Monday, May 11, 2009

Why do they call Myanmar cyclone "Narcissus"?

It was called Nargis (apparently the Urdu word for daffodil)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Nar...


the daffodils belong to the genus Narcissus -someone has translated the name


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_(...


interestingly here in the west (England) they report the original name


see


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_cy...


for the origin of naming storms


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