There's a petition to rename Tropical Storm Hermine to Harambe

By Colin Wolf on Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 11:48 am

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#Hermine is cool, but they spelt the name wrong, so I'm all for #Harambe pic.twitter.com/lF0joKsldV
— Anthony (@KopiTheKitten) August 31, 2016

In honor of the gorilla that was shot and killed after a child fell into its enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo, a petition is now circulating to have the National Hurricane Center change the name of Tropical Storm Hermine to Tropical Storm Harambe.

"Tropical Storm Hermine sounds terrible, and is disrespectful to the great Harambe. To honor Harambe, a renaming is required to continue his legacy," says the Change.org petition.

At this moment, the petition only needs about 300 more signatures to reach its goal.

We just checked... And #UCF is fully operational despite Tropical Storm #Hermine (aka #Harambe by some of you). Sorry, class isn't canceled!
— UCF Knight News (@UCFKnightNews) September 1, 2016

Tropical storm #Hermine should have been #Harambe .Way to snub a fallen American hero. pic.twitter.com/pQoa3p7E5U
— Dani Destroys Dems ✯ (@NimbleNavgater) August 31, 2016

TS Hermine is a horrible name. A storm on CFB opening weekend should have been named after our friend Harambe. He loved the game so much.
— TaxSlayer Bowl (@taxslayerbowl) August 31, 2016