An average of 20 tropical cyclones hit the Philippines every year making it necessary for authorities to give them Filipino names aside from their international monikers for easier recall.
PAGASA curates the names alphabetically and reuses the set every four years. This means that names that will be used this 2022 will be repeated in 2026, 2030, and 2034.
Names of storms that leave too much destruction in their wake however are "retired" and replaced with new ones from PAGASA's list of names.
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Here are the names for tropical cyclones that will enter or form inside the Philippine area of responsibility this year:
- Agaton
- Basyang
- Caloy
- Domeng
- Ester
- Florita
- Gardo
- Henry
- Inday
- Josie
- Karding
- Luis
- Maymay
- Neneng
- Obet
- Paeng
- Queenie
- Rosal
- Samuel
- Tomas
- Umberto
- Venus
- Waldo
- Yayang
- Zeny
PAGASA also has a set of auxiliary names should the tropical cyclones for the year exceed 25. For 2022, here are the auxiliary names for tropical cyclones:
- Agila
- Bagwis
- Chito
- Diego
- Elena
- Felino
- Gunding
- Harriet
- Indang
- Jessa
