who names tropical storms anyway?
2006-08-30 11:08:00 · 2 answers · asked by IDNTGIVASHT 6 in News & Events ➔ Other - News & Events
The US National Hurricane Center names the storms. There are several letters that are skipped (Q, U, X, Y, and Z) and especially damaging storms have their names retired such as: Katrina, Hugo and Andrew
2006-08-30 11:19:44 · answer #1 · answered by Joker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
tropical storms are named by the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
There are clear rules for that: The First Storm starts with an A... second with a B and so on.
Ernesto is the fifth storm. If storm A got a male name. Storm B gets an female name... and storm C gets a male name and so on.
If eg 2006 storm A was male (which is the case) 2007 storm A is female.
There is a list of banned names. Storms who caused a real disaster get banned. There will never be a Hurricane Katrina or a Hurricane Ivan again.
btw the names are fix for the next five year. you will find the list there:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml
2006-08-30 11:33:48 · answer #2 · answered by florida.mike 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋