Why or what determines the names of Hurricanes?

Question

What determines the name of a major hurricane and the alteration of "male to female to male to female" names? For example, there was Hurricane Arthur, Bertha, Cristobal, Dolly, Edouard, Fay, Gustav, Hannah, and then Ike, Josephine, Kyle...and so on.

Answer 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txiRPyLWH...

Answer 2

They are decided by the World Meteorological Organization.

Answer 3

Hurricane Names

When the the winds from these storms reach 39 mph (34 kts), the cyclones are given names. Years ago, an international committee developed names for Atlantic cyclones (The History of Naming Hurricanes). In 1979 a six year rotating list of Atlantic storm names was adopted — alternating between male and female hurricane names. Storm names are used to facilitate geographic referencing, for warning services, for legal issues, and to reduce confusion when two or more tropical cyclones occur at the same time. Through a vote of the World Meteorological Organization Region IV Subcommittee, Atlantic cyclone names are retired usually when hurricanes result in substantial damage or death or for other special circumstances. The names assigned for the next several seasons  

Answer 4

www.nhc.noaa.gov/

The National Hurricane Ctr. you can submitt a name

Answer 5

we should start naming them after democrats, hurrican bill, hillary, hussein obama, feinstein, pelosi...they all have the same effect on the country as a hurricane..lets give them the credit they deserve.

Answer 6

Hurricane names (and other tropical cyclones around the world) are decided in advance by a committee of the World Meteorological Organization, and the lists are created for usage. You can see the latest lists here, as well as the history of the practice of naming these systems: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml

Answer 7

It's random and the names have nothing to do with how strong it is that's nature's job to determine that.

Answer 8

It's alphabetical, and switch male/ female each letter.....every storm gets named...some die out right away, some become hurricanes....

Answer 9

alphabetical order u see...and the alterations are jus to keep the ratio of female and male names fair...

Answer 10

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml

Lots of good info!

Answer 11

ihave no clue.

but im thinking it means something in another language.

Answer 12

I think besides it being alphabetical, it's completely random

Answer 13

Every year they pick the names randomly following the alphabet.