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Who gives hurracanes there names?

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Who gives hurracanes there names?

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  1. The National Weather Service.  The go by alphabetical order and rotate male and female as the begin to develop as tropical storms and ultimately become hurricanes.  


  2. Milton Bradley

  3. The national Weather service.

  4. They are generated in an alphabetical order alternating between male and female names by a computer.  I guess that that means someday there will be a hurrican Moon-unit, or Apple.  lol

  5. who decides what names are used each year? The World Meteorological Organization uses six lists in rotation. 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.

    Edit: Also go to this link:

    http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?...

  6. I only know they are all named after woman....that tells a lot about us doesn't it?

    haha!

  7. Since 1953, Atlantic tropical storms have been named from lists originated by the National Hurricane Center. They are now maintained and updated by an international committee of the World Meteorological Organization. The original name lists featured only women's names. In 1979, men's names were introduced and they alternate with the women's names. Six lists are used in rotation. Thus, the 2008 list will be used again in 2014.

    The only time that there is a change in the list is if a storm is so deadly or costly that the future use of its name on a different storm would be inappropriate for reasons of sensitivity. If that occurs, then at an annual meeting by the WMO committee (called primarily to discuss many other issues) the offending name is stricken from the list and another name is selected to replace it.

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