Who gets to pick the alphabetic name for tropical storms every year?

Question

I just saw Ernesto on the news and it had me thinking, is it someone's uncle? How long before we run out of names and start reusing them?

Answer 1

Theres a list of the names in Alphabetical order for the next 5 years. Once the five years are over, they'll reuse the naems. If the strom causes a lot of damage or death, like Andrew and Katrina, the name gets retired and the replace the name with a new name starting with the same letters. If they run out of names for a year, they use the greek alphabet. http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml- this website has the list of names unitl 2011

Answer 2

The National Hurricane Centre.

Answer 3

Names are _not_ chosen at the National Hurricane Center. A sub-organization of the United Nations does that.

"They are now maintained and updated by an international committee of the World Meteorological Organization."
--from http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml

Answer 4

Whoever is currently banging the head of N.O.A.A or the national oceanic and atmospheric association. The guy likes banging hispanic girls so this is why there is always a lot of hispanic named storms like ernesto. You'll know if he ever starts banging a black girl because we'll see storms named Shaniqua, Beyonce, JayZ and 50 cent.

Answer 5

The national hurricane center, or the major weather people, which any way, are the in the same topic, so u pretty much get the picture

Answer 6

It is a weather center they use names consisting of greek letters in the alphabet... It is a weird but unique and intresting thing..
some Hurricane names i remember.

Hugo
Katrina
Ivan
Andrew
Steven
Ernesto
John

Answer 7

Hey, great question. I am going to put this on my watch list and wait for you to get the answer.

Answer 8

i am with u who?