Why are cyclones and hurricanes named after the names of women?

Question

There have been several devastating hurricanes and cyclones in the past decade. Why have most of them been named after the names of ladies- like Katrina, Nargis, etc

Answer 1

because women made man

Answer 2

One thing I'd like to add on is that names are also alternated between English, French, and Spanish names to reflect the three major languages spoken in the Western Hemisphere.

Answer 3

Reason to Name Hurricanes

Experience shows that the use of short, distinctive names in written as well as spoken communications is quicker and less subject to error than the older, more cumbersome latitude-longitude identification methods. These advantages are especially important in exchanging detailed storm information between hundreds of widely scattered stations, coastal bases, and ships at sea.

The use of easily remembered names greatly reduces confusion when two or more tropical storms occur at the same time. For example, one hurricane can be moving slowly westward in the Gulf of Mexico, while at exactly the same time another hurricane can be moving rapidly northward along the Atlantic coast. In the past, confusion and false rumors have arisen when storm advisories broadcast from radio stations were mistaken for warnings concerning an entirely different storm located hundreds of miles away.

History of Hurricane Names

For several hundred years many hurricanes in the West Indies were named after the particular saint's day on which the hurricane occurred. Ivan R. Tannehill describes in his book "Hurricanes" the major tropical storms of recorded history and mentions many hurricanes named after saints. For example, there was "Hurricane Santa Ana" which struck Puerto Rico with exceptional violence on July 26, 1825, and "San Felipe" (the first) and "San Felipe" (the second) which hit Puerto Rico on September 13 in both 1876 and 1928.

Tannehill also tells of Clement Wragge, an Australian meteorologist who began giving women's names to tropical storms before the end of the l9th century.

An early example of the use of a woman's name for a storm was in the novel "Storm" by George R. Stewart, published by Random House in 1941, and since filmed by Walt Disney. During World War II this practice became widespread in weather map discussions among forecasters, especially Air Force and Navy meteorologists who plotted the movements of storms over the wide expanses of the Pacific Ocean.

In 1953, the United States abandoned a confusing two-year old plan to name storms by a phonetic alphabet (Able, Baker, Charlie) when a new, international phonetic alphabet was introduced. That year, the United States began using female names for storms.

The practice of naming hurricanes solely after women came to an end in 1978 when men's and women's names were included in the Eastern North Pacific storm lists. In 1979, male and female names were included in lists for the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico.

Answer 4

Because of the known fact when woman get angry in a relationship, they behave similarly to a natural disaster. Out of nowhere, completely unpredicted they will walk into your residence and go crazy. Creating chaos, chasing men away and destroying everything that men have worked so hard to build. Leaving us crushed and relying on slow response teams (rebound chicks) to recuperate.

Obviously I'm just kidding but I did respond to your question because I have never thought of that, how sexist! Good thinking. lol :-)

Answer 5

The names for them are both male and female.  Every other is male or female and then they switch the next year.  For instance, one year A, C, E, ... are male and B, D, F, ... are female then the next year A, C, E, ... are female and B, D, F,... male.  As for why some of the recent bad ones happen to be female... happenstance.

Answer 6

Hurricane names are picked from a set list determined and recylced every couple of years (I believe the number is 6). The names alternate each year from male to female, for example one year A is male B is female C is male and so on, while the next year A is female, B is male, and C is female... etc...