Why were hurricanes usually named after women?

Question

I asked "why were"
yes I am aware the men get equal time now.....about time too....lol

Answer 1

Because when the come..they are all wet, hot and wild
and when they leave they take everything with them.

Answer 2

You people aren't listening to her question. She asked why WERE hurricanes named after women - referring to the time prior to 1979 when men and womens names began alternating.

Military radio code names were used in 1951 (Able, Baker, Charlie, etc.) but this was discovered to be confusing if two powerful hurricane Charlies occurred.
1953 began the naming of hurricanes in only womens names, after a novel called "Storm" (1941) referred to a storm by a womans name.
In 1979 after protests from feminists, mens names were integrated into the naming system.

(During WWII womens names were also used, but then officials started using latitude/longitude coordinates until 1951)

Answer 3

The scientists that name hurricanes alternate between male and female names. It is just coincidence that the hurricanes that we have all been hearing about have had female names. And not all devastating hurricanes have been named after women. Years ago there was a hurricane that obliterated the gulf coast and that hurricane was named "Andrew".

Answer 4

Hurricanes are named both alphabetically and alternating between male and female. For instance, the first would be named Adam, the second beth. Whatever. If there is a really huge huricane they retire the name and don't use it anymore, but all in all, it's equal between male and female names.

Answer 5

What could be more destructive and inconvenient to people than women?

Also, apparently no one else here got the memo that hurricanes were named ONLY after woman in the 70s and previous years and they only started naming them in the 50s, as you seem to already know due to the nature of your question.

Or something like that.

Answer 6

It really originated after an Australian anchor man started naming storms, the first one was a typhoon he named after his girlfriend. And it sky rocketed there. And also pilots in the early 1900's would name storms and natural geological phenomanons after their wives, daughters, girlfriends, ect. But it was the anchor man that started the Hurricane naming tradition booming.

Answer 7

Lonely men at sea named their ships and their hurricanes after women.

Answer 8

I have a number of sources explaining why the phonetic alphabet was first used (names less confusing than numbers), why the use of the phonetic alphabet was discontinued. (Distinctive names were easier to distinguish) but no reference to why females names were used exclusively for so long.

My guess would be that most meteorologists of the time were men.

Answer 9

They're not. They alternate genders with each letter and year. For example, one year the A would be male (Alex), B would be female (Betty), and so on, and the next year A would be female (Amy), the B would be male (Ben), etc.

They're named in order of when the storm forms, and since some form in the ocean and never reach shore, you may not hear about them.

Answer 10

Because hurricanes are like women, they leave u with nothing at the end

Answer 11

what about Andrew or Hugo. they not all just after women, they make a list every year of names to use for the storms, what about last year when they were going into the greek alphabet. they ran out of names on there list and started with alpha, beta, etc.