How do they name hurricanes?

Question

i mean do they go in alphabetical order or something. the one in florida is alberto or something

Answer 1

I belive there is a national organization that comes up with an official list for them to use.

Answer 2

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 as confusing a two-year old plan to name storms by a phonetic alphabet (Able, Baker, Charlie) when a new, international phonetic alphabet was introduced. That year, this Nation's weather services 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 3

they have list of names from a-z like the first hurricane will be named something thats starts with an "A". and so on. if they run out of letters they will use the Greek language. thats is how they name hurricanes. if ur wondering what names they pick, thats a good question. i think they just pick these names @ random.

Answer 4

Named after the founders i.e. the scientists/astrologers/hurricanists/whateva's who first see them or sight them and predict their coming

(like mine would be called Hurricane Pierrre23 ! -
that simple as 1-2-3 !)

Answer 5

There are list of names. Alphabetical.
They are on a six year rotation.
However, if a Hurricane is of a significant impact, it gets retired. This way there will not be another "Katrina".

Answer 6

I think they do it in alphabetical order and alternate the sex as well.

Answer 7

I belive they do it in alphabetical order too!

Answer 8

at the begining of the year they start at the beging of the alphbet then if they runout of letter they begin on the greek alphebet