How do storms/hurricane/typhoons get the names?

Question

Names of recent disastrous hurricane like Katrina, Rita etc.

Answer 1

Severe Tropical Cyclones are given names in alphabetical order from a list which is prepared by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Here's a link that should get you started.

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

Answer 2

Hurricanes have two sequences of names, one for the Atlantic, and another for the Eastern Pacific. They alternate between male and female names and include English, Spanish, and French names. To determine the gender of a storm, start with 0. Add one if the year is odd but not if the year is even. Add one if the ocean is Atlantic, but not if it is Eastern Pacific. Add one if the letter in the Hurricane Alphabet (ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTVW) is odd but not if it is even. If the result is even the storm is male else it is female. After W, Greek letters are used: Alpha, Beta, and so forth.

Names of typhoons have special lists that cycle around. Countries contribute to the list, including the US, some Hispanic countries, Vietnam, China, Japan, and several other Far Eastern countries.

Names are chosen to be easily memorized so are no more than about 3 syllables. There are no Hurricanes Mephistopheles or Deuteronomy. Names of especially severe storms are retired, so there will never again be a Hurricane Katrina. If names are not retired, they appear again 6 years later.

Answer 3

Typhoons are numbered in the order in which they occur so they don`t have names. Typhoons are what we call large storms in the Pacific ocean. Cyclones are bigger and they occur in the South Pacific.

Hurricanes are given names in alphabetical order. They used to only use female names but in the last 10 years they have started to use both male and female names to name them. So, if there is a hurricane that`s name starts with the letter " Z "you know that there were a hell of alot of hurricanes that season. Hurricanes and Tropical storms (depending on wind speed and size) happen in the Atlantic Ocean. As for the actual naming each year, I think the Meterologists sit in an office with a baby name book and decide what the names are as the Tropical storms/Hurricanes are born.

Answer 4

This is serious, I'm not being a smart-***: At the beggining of each year they start at the beggining of the alphabet, people at the weather centres write down names and either vote on them or pick them out of a hat.

Answer 5

The weather center comes up with them and they go down the alphabet.

Answer 6

currents, waves, tides, waterfalls, fish, whales, dolphins, sharks, sea weed, coral, kelp, anemones, tube worms, plankton, krill, underwater mountain determination, underwater valley.............