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Yes, really, it’s going to be called the Gulf of America

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The term appeared early Wednesday in a forecast product known as a convective outlook, released periodically every day by the Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center in Norman , Oklahoma .

It came little more than a week after President Donald Trump issued an executive order to rename the Gulf of America .

It is not yet policy for Weather Service and other agencies to use the term.

“I’m certainly not going to follow some American exceptionalism edict that we have a claim on that name,” Morales says.

The Geographic Names Information System’s entry for the Gulf of Mexico included more than two dozen past alternate names.