Why hurricanes and cyclones are given female names?

Question

Why hurricanes and cyclones are given female names?

Answer 1

That used to be the case but not anymore,  they are alternately given names male/female and are predetermined well in advance of the hurricane seasons.

Answer 2

humans believe that almighty God is male and hence all his creations are female.

Every nation is called mother land.Language as mother tongue. Nature as mother nature.

Even the big wars are called mother of all wars.

So may be that is one of the reasons the cyclones have  female name

Answer 3

not all, i remember there being a Dean just recently

Answer 4

they aren't always. They go throught the entire alphabet a is boy b is girl c is boy etc. they take it in turns. not all girls

girls rule! haha

Answer 5

They go back and forth.  Only every other hurricane has a female name.  And they go by the alphabet.  

Alex

Bonnie

Colin

Danielle

Earl

Fiona

Gaston

Hermine

Igor

Julia

Karl

Lisa

Matthew

Nicole

Otto

Paula

Richard

Shary

Tomas

Virginie

Walter

Answer 6

Hurricanes are given male names

Cyclones female.

It runs in the order of the Alphabet so say that last cyclone was called cyclone, Kirsten, The next would be cyclone and a female name beggining with L.

Same withj hurricanes and male names.

Answer 7

its a tradition that started when fighter pilots flying over storms during WWII started naming them after their stingy wives

Answer 8

becoz they are the ones who mess everything up.

Answer 9

I thought they alternated between male and female names.

Answer 10

If you look, it's a cycle of female and male names.

Here's a website for you: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/HAW2/english/bas...

And a quick paragraph:

"Using women’s names became the practice during World War II, following the use of a woman’s name for a storm in the 1941 novel "Storm" by George R. Stewart. In 1951 the United States adopted a confusing plan to name storms by a phonetic alphabet (Able, Baker, Charlie), and in 1953 the nation’s weather services returned to using female names. The practice of using female names exclusively ended in 1978 when names from both genders were used to designate storms in the eastern Pacific. A year later, male and female names were included in lists for the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. The name lists, which have been agreed upon at international meetings of the World Meteorological Organization, have a French, Spanish, Dutch, and English flavor because hurricanes affect other nations and are tracked by the public and weather services of many countries. "

Answer 11

i think it might be cause we live on "mother earth"