Why are hurricanes named after woman?

Question

Like

~hurricane katrina

~hurricane lisa

and etc...

Answer 1

Some hurricanes are names after men.  There was a hurricane Andrew or something last year right?

Answer 2

There are male names too. Andrew, Ivan, etc. Its every other year between male and female.

Answer 3

not true, its equal, well at least nowadays they are.  remember hurricane frances, & andrew. I foudn this on a site, i hope it helps!

The first formalized system of naming storms was created near the end of the 19th century by Australian meteorologist Clement Wragge, who started naming storms after letters of the Greek alphabet. Later he changed to using the names from Greek and Roman mythology, and later still to common feminine names. U.S. military meteorologists picked up the convention during World War II, but at the end of the war, the system that became formalized was one which used the military's phonetic alphabet (Able, Baker, Charlie, etc.). In 1953 the Weather Service switched over to feminine names; the very first was Tropical Storm Alice. In 1978, due to sexist overtones (male meteorologists referring to the stormy personalities of women they knew), male names began alternating with female ones in the Eastern North Pacific, and in 1979 the practice was extended to the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico region

Answer 4

i think that they alternate between boys and girls names--like if the a hurricane has a girls name then the b hurricane will have a boys name

maybe a lot of the bad ones happen to be named after women....

Answer 5

like hurricane benjamin

like hurricane david

know your facts

Answer 6

HER i-cane, not HIM-i-cane

Answer 7

They no longer are;-} they alternate with male names now.

(The worst ones just happen to have women's names.)

Answer 8

They aren't always named after women.  Google it and check it out...lots of male names out there that hurricanes have been named after.

Answer 9

every other year is a female year

like this year is a male year then the next is a female and so on and so fourth

Answer 10

not all are named after girls

Answer 11

hurricane names alternate between male and female

"Prior to 1950 storms weren't officially named at all. From 1950 to 1952 they were named simply Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog, Easy, Fox, George...not very imaginative, but it sufficed. From 1953 to 1978 someone (my guess a man going through a nasty divorce) decided to use only female names. Finally, in 1979, they started alternating between male and female names."

A very simple google search gave me that information.

Answer 12

every year the national weather service starts naming tropical storms with names starting with the letter a to z (and greek letters if needed) the gender of the name alternates every letter. so if A were male, B would be female, C would be male, and so on.