How are Hurricanes named?

Question

How are Hurricanes named?

Answer 1

they're just named like that. so that people can remember the hurricane easily.

Answer 2

Good evening,

Every so often, the World Meteorological Organization holds conventions to decide important questions and exchange meteorological information.  In this meeting a list of names is presented gathered worldwide from real births.  In the convention these names are decided upon for each region of the world monitored for tropical cyclone development.  

The United States had a situation in the year Katrina struck when it ran out of names and was forced to resort to the greek lettering system.  This is so far the only time that I can see that we've had to do that in the present moderan day naming system.  

I've given you a link below to read the history of naming hurricanes.  

Hope this helps.

Brian R Cross.

Answer 3

Hurricanes are named to distinguish between weather systems that may exist  in a region at the same time.Beginning in 1953,female names were routinely used.In 1975,Australia became the first country to use male names as well.The USA followed suit in 1978,using alternate male and female names.

For Atlantic storms,names are alloted alphabetically,starting each year at A.In the North Pacific,they are named from  A to Z.

Answer 4

Im not sure i myself am wondering if there is a room of people sitting down goind through names and cracking jokes here and there.

But a bunch of people started up this big thing about them never making them african american names i think its bullshit get over it why keep coming up with things to start up another racist fight. That had nothing to do with the question but it reminded me of it

Answer 5

There is a list. one name for each letter of the English Alphabet if it goes over 26 they use the greek alphabet for names.

Answer 6

Tropical depressions are "named" when the storm system has reached a certain intensity.

The intensity is determined by the highest wind speeds which are near (but not at) the center. At that point when there are gale force winds (34 knots or more) surrounding or nearly surrounding the center, the tropical depression is classified as a Tropical Cyclone and named.

The name comes from a list that has been agreed amongst the countries in the tropical cyclone region.

The name gives a convenient handle for the purposes of advisories, warnings and forecasts. Before they are named, these disturbances will have a number-letter label such as 05P. The number is sequential for the season, and the letter refers to the geographical area.

Hurricanes are not named. The naming occurs when the cyclone is just gale intensity. Then it is referred to as Tropical Storm A-name. Later it may reach hurricane intensity and will be referred to as Hurricane A-name.

Answer 7

For several hundred years, hurricanes in the West Indies were often named after the particular saint’s day on which the hurricane occurred. For example "Hurricane San Felipe" struck Puerto Rico on 13 September 1876. Another storm struck Puerto Rico on the same day in 1928, and this storm was named "Hurricane San Felipe the second." Later, latitude-longitude positions were used. However, experience has shown that using distinctive names in communications is quicker and less subject to error than the cumbersome latitude longitude identification methods.

Using women’s names became the practice during World War II, following the use of a woman’s name for a storm in the 1941 novel "Storm" by George R. Stewart. In 1951 the United States adopted a confusing plan to name storms by a phonetic alphabet (Able, Baker, Charlie), and in 1953 the nation’s weather services returned to using female names. The practice of using female names exclusively ended in 1978 when names from both genders were used to designate storms in the eastern Pacific. A year later, male and female names were included in lists for the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. The name lists, which have been agreed upon at international meetings of the World Meteorological Organization, have a French, Spanish, Dutch, and English flavor because hurricanes affect other nations and are tracked by the public and weather services of many countries.

The Tropical Prediction Center in Miami, FL keeps a constant watch on oceanic storm-breeding grounds. Once a system with counterclockwise circulation and wind speeds of 39 mph or greater is identified, the Center gives the storm a name from the list for the current year. The letters Q, U, X, Y, and Z are not included because of the scarcity of names beginning with those letters. Names associated with storms that have caused significant death and/or damage are usually retired from the list.