Question about Naming Hurricanes.?

Question

How do they do it? I know it goes boy/girl/boy/girl..., but do they just pick random names or is there like some sort of process?

just wondering...

Answer 1

On the weather channel they say that they do it alphabetically but only if its a tropical storm or a hurricane. I don't know who makes the names but hope that helped.

Answer 2

I think  they just pick random names. I remember watching something on the weather channel once about hurricanes and they explained how they named them.

Answer 3

the names are used again every 6 years and they pick them at this meteorological conference they have and if it was a strong hurricane for example 2005's wilma it was replaced with whitney and 2005 names are going to be used on 2011 storms

Answer 4

For hurricanes it's by alphabetical order, but it doesn't do Q, U, X, Y, and Z. If in one season all the names get used, they start with "Alfa" "Bravo" "Charlie" and so on with the NATO phonetic alphabet. That has only happened once, though, in 2005.

Every year there is a different list the storms are named after. They switch boys and girls names every year. Like if one year D is Dolly, then the next it would be a boys name like Damon.

They use the same list as six years before the current year unless a name on the list has been retired.

When a name is retired, it is never used again for hurricanes. They usually retire if they cause excessive amounts of damage or if they are very deadly.

I'll leave you a link at the bottom to the Wikipedia