Who decides what hurricanes should be called?

Question

How do they choose what to call them?

Answer 1

Well there is a story behind this 2 friends were playing and all of the sudden lots of wind started flowing and  rain started pouring in and and it was really horrible and they both thought they would die so they started running towards their homes and one of the guy was named Cane and he left behind and his friends kept running forward and kept yelling HURRY CANE ### HURRY CANE HURRYyyyy and the Cane got stuck and he died and so later they named it as Hurrycane.

Take Care.

Answer 2

They have a list at the world meteorological office.

Answer 3

Another bloody list!

I bet we don't make that one though!

Edit.

Heyyyyyyyyy I make 'the list' in 2012!

http://geography.about.com/od/lists/a/20...

Check it out, loads of names pre arranged.

Answer 4

The World Meteorological Organization.

They use six lists in rotation so the same lists are reused every six years.

The only time a new name is added is if a hurricane is very deadly or costly. Then the name is retired and a new name is chosen.

Prior to this hurricanes in the West Indies were named after the particular saint's day on which the hurricane occurred. An Australian meteorologist began giving women's names to tropical storms before the end of the 19th century. In 1953, the U.S. National Weather Service, which is the federal agency that tracks hurricanes and issues warnings and watches, began using female names for storms.  

Answer 5

god knows lol id love to name one though

Answer 6

No short answer for your question! Just open this search results from Google (2.41 MILLION SITES!) and see those sites of your interest, yourself:

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=na...

Answer 7

These names are taken from lists that vary from region to region and are drafted a few years ahead of time. The lists are decided on, depending on the regions, either by committees of the World Meteorological Organization (called primarily to discuss many other issues), or by national weather offices involved in the forecasting of the storms. Each year, the names of particularly destructive storms (if there are any) are "retired" and new names are chosen to take their place.

The names start from A each year and each one is then named from a subsequent letter of the alphabet. The names are alternated male and female.

Answer 8

I don't know, but if it gets around to S I'm petitioning to have it called Hurricane Steph!!!

LOL I was actually thinking that last night when I heard about Hurricane Gustave...

apparently this Hurricane is Swedish or g*y!!

Answer 9

Im not sure but i know the first Letter is just in alphabetically order.

For example if the next hurricance was "J"ulie, the one after would be "K"atherine

Answer 10

Their are scientists that names scientific objects and others and I can't just remember it but that person refers the name from the effects or causes of the hurricane from it's greek, latin and other languages.

Answer 11

The World Meteorological association

http://www.atl.ec.gc.ca/weather/hurrican...

Answer 12

Each year there is a list of names for hurricanes.

Google it

Answer 13

they repeatdly run through the alphabet and use womens names, although the most violent storms typically have male names i think, not to sure.

Answer 14

Some sexist man.  

Answer 15

they go by alphabetical order... thats all i know...

Answer 16

the weather channel lol

Answer 17

Sum twit wots called the Hurricane Guy...it's a bloke who's just full of hot air!

They gonna make a movie about it soon..........they reckon it'll Blow us All Away !

Who cares who decides anyway? ......it doesn't matter who decides you sassy li'l ol' snake you !

and will someone please EXPLAIN to us all just what the h**l "Zala Z" is raving on about ?

Answer 18

It's by alphabetical order, so if the last one was called Angela, the next one would be call Ben or something like that. They made that system a while ago so names can't get repeated and they knew the previous names.

There are male and female names. I'll look for the site and post it on here when I find it.

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You'll notice some male names...

http://www.fema.gov/kids/hunames3.htm

http://www.fema.gov/kids/hunames3_pacifi...

http://www.fema.gov/kids/r_hurrnames.htm

American weather agencies began assigning girls' names to major tropical storms in 1953. Apparently they got the idea from military forecasters.

Later the assigning of names for Atlantic hurricanes was turned over to the World Meteorological Organization, a UN agency, theoretically making it an international responsibility. (Naming of hurricanes in the eastern Pacific is handled through a bilateral agreement with Mexico.)

Evenhanded as all this sounds, there's no doubt Uncle Sam still runs the show. When the U.S., prodded by feminists, proposed that boys' names alternate with girls' starting in 1979, a committee of the WMO accepted without a whimper.

To keep the Central and South American countries happy, a few Spanish names (e.g., Ernesto, Rafael) are sprinkled amongst the Anglos.

Answer 19

the person who spots the hurricane gets the hurricane named after them.

Answer 20

no but currently...theres a hurricane RIGGS?lmfao.

Answer 21

I similar like with stars. Usually are scientist that name them (you can see that they aren't really original) or people who work with them.

Alphabetical order is used for a better organization so names could not be repeated. They probably decided for a human names because they can't just make up some. If they could name them by any object (like stone, London, Chubby) there would be a big mess.

Answer 22

prpbably named after more women as when she leaves she takes the bloody lot with her