This one is Hernando...How do they pick names for huricanes and tropical storms?

Question

It is raining like crazy all day.

Answer 1

A group of meteorologists from all over the world meets every year. They created the original lists of tropical storm names for all of the ocean basins with tropical activity, and every year they pick new names to replace the ones that are retired because the storms with those names were especially destructive. The storm in the northeastern United States right now is Ernesto, and the next storm to form in the Atlantic will be named Florence, because an alphabetical list is used, alternating the genders of the names.

Answer 2

they actually rotate the names..especially pewerful storm names are retired..such as katrina is now retired, but they just pick like 15 names each year, and when they run out..as they did last year they used the greek alphabet.

i found this:
2006 Atlantic, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico names

Names Dates Top winds Names Dates Top winds
T.S. Alberto
June 10 -14 70 mph Leslie
T.S. Beryl July 18 - 21 60 mph Michael
T.S. Chris
Aug. 1 - 5 65 mph Nadine
T.S. Debby
Aug. 21 - 27 50 mph Oscar
H. Ernesto Aug. 24 - Patty
Florence
Rafael
Gordon
Sandy
Helene Tony
Isaac

Valerie
Joyce
William
Kirk

Names not retired from this list will appear in the list in six years. T.S.=tropical storm; H.=hurricane at some time during its life. ST.S=subtropical storm.
If more than 21 named tropical cyclones occur this year in the Atlantic, the Greek alphabet (Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta...) will be used.

Answer 3

They go by the order of the alphabet, alternating between male and female names. When the came to the end they restart at A.

Answer 4

there is a list of names that rotates every six years. names on the list gets retired if they are very destructive otherwise they are reused again in six years. once the names on the list are all used up for that year, they start naming them using the Greek alphabet such as alpha, beta, etc.

see link below

Answer 5

storm when it made a glancing blow on Haiti, but flooding and mudslides killed over 2,000 people.
Naming of tropical cyclones

Tropical cyclones with winds exceeding 17 metres per second are given names, to assist in recording insurance claims, to assist in warning people of the coming storm, and to further indicate that these are important storms that should not be ignored. These names are taken from lists which vary from region to region and are drafted a few years ahead of time. The lists are decided upon, depending on the regions, either by committees of the World Meteorological Organization (called primarily to discuss many other issues), or by national weather services involved in the forecasting of the storms.

Each year, the names of particularly destructive storms are "retired" and new names are chosen to take their place.

See also: Lists of tropical cyclone names
History of tropical cyclone naming

For several hundred years after the arrival of Europeans in the West Indies, hurricanes there were named after the saint's day on which the storm struck. During World War II, tropical cyclones were given female names, mainly for the convenience of the forecasters and in a somewhat ad hoc manner.

The modern naming convention came about in response to the need for unambiguous radio communications with ships and aircraft. As transportation traffic increased and meteorological observations improved in number and quality, several typhoons, hurricanes or cyclones might have to be tracked at any given time. To help in their identification, in the early 1950s the practice of systematically naming tropical storms and hurricanes was initiated by the United States National Hurricane Center, and is now maintained by the WMO.

In keeping with the common English language practice of referring to inanimate objects such as boats, trains, etc., using the female pronoun "she," names used were exclusively female. The first storm of the year was assigned a name beginning with the letter "A", the second with the letter "B", etc. However, since tropical storms and hurricanes are primarily destructive, some considered this practice sexist. The National Weather Service responded to these concerns in 1979 with the introduction of male names to the nomenclature.
The naming process

The WMO's Regional Association IV Hurricane Committee selects the names for Atlantic Basin and central and eastern Pacific storms.

Currently, in the Atlantic and Eastern North Pacific regions, female and male names during a given season are assigned alternately, still in alphabetic order. The "gender" of the first storm of the season also alternates year to year. Six lists of names are prepared in advance, and reused on a six-year cycle (a different list is used for each year). Names of storms may be retired at the request of affected countries if they have caused extensive damage to life and property.

In the Central North Pacific region, the name lists are maintained by the Central Pacific Hurricane Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. Four lists of Hawaiian names are selected and used in sequential order without regard to year.

In the Western North Pacific, name lists are maintained by the WMO Typhoon Committee. Five lists of names are used, with each of the 14 nations on the Typhoon Committee submitting two names to each list. Names are used in the order of the countries' English names, sequentially without regard to year. Japan Meteorological Agency uses a secondary naming system in Western North Pacific that numbers a typhoon on the order it formed resetting on December 31 of every year. The Typhoon Songda in September 2004 is internally called the typhoon number 18 and is recorded as the typhoon 0418 with 04 taken from the year.

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology maintains three lists of names, one for each of the Western, Northern and Eastern Australian regions. There are also Fiji region and Papua New Guinea region names. The Seychelles Meteorological Service maintains a list for the Southwest Indian Ocean

Answer 6

they just pick em i guess, the meterologists and hurricane trackers, i heard once when they when hurricane isabel was around this one meterologist named it after his daughter. I dont know they pick random names and choose one.

Answer 7

they used every name they could think of. their going to be using the greek alphabet soon.

Answer 8

I'm mad that there are so many hurricanes back to back.