What determines what name a hurricane gets?

Question

hurricanes

Answer 1

Nothing determines it, apart from 1st storm is named after a girl starting with A, next storm is a boy named after A, then 3rd is girls names stating with B, 4th boy starting with B etc.. Hope that makes sense.

Answer 2

Hurricanes names are chosen from a list selected by the World Meteorological Organization. The Atlantic is assigned six lists of names, with one list used each year. Every sixth year, the first list begins again. Each name on the list starts with a different letter, for example, the name of the very first hurricane of the season starts with the letter A, the next starts with the letter B, and so on. The letters "Q", "U", "X", "Y" and "Z", however, are not used.
Often when an unusually destructive hurricane hits, that hurricane's name is retired and never used again. Since 1954, forty names have been retired. In 1996 Hurricane Luis was retired. Is your name among the currently used or retired hurricane names?

Answer 3

Hurricanes have been given names since the early 1900s, when an Australian weatherman would give names to the storms he tracked to help keep them apart. He enjoyed naming them after politicians he didn't like, so that he could then talk about the destruction that they caused.

When the US Army got heavily into weather forecasting during World War II, workers there would start to nickname the storm systems after their wives or girlfriends, to give them their 15 minutes of fame. Soon they began to start with A and move through the letters, to make tracking the systems easier. By 1953 this was standard for the US Weather Bureau. In 1970 the National Weather Service had this responsibility, and moved to include men's names as well.

Names are chosen for 6 years in a row, and then cycle around to the first set of names again. If a storm is truly memorable, that name is retired and a new one chosen to take its place.

Answer 4

North Atlantic Ocean storms are named by the U.S. National Hurricane Center from the following lists. There have been six lists of names in use since 1979. The lists make use of names from both sexes. They are in alphabetical order and lists are recycled after six years, with List IV in use for the 2006 season. For retired names, see List of retired Atlantic hurricanes. All letters of the alphabet are used except Q, U, X, Y and Z.

Gender alternates both between adjacent names in a list (a male name is followed by a female one and vice versa) and between initial names between lists (if one year's list starts with a female name, the next year's list begins with a male one and vice versa).

If the names on a list are all used, storms are then named after the letters of the Greek alphabet (Alpha, Beta, Gamma, etc.) The use of 21 names was established in reference to the 1933 Atlantic hurricane season which had been the record holder for the most storms in the region. This record was broken during the 2005 season, which saw 28 storms (27 named and one unnamed), and saw the first use of the Greek alphabet to name storms.

This is a list of all Atlantic hurricanes that have had their names retired. Hurricane names are retired by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in a meeting in March or April of each year. Those hurricanes that have their names retired tend to be exceptionally destructive storms that often become household names in the regions they affected. Since the naming of storms using human names began in 1953, an average of one storm name has been retired for each season, though many seasons have had no storm names retired, and after the 2005 season, five names were retired.

Storm names are retired following a request made at the March or April WMO meeting by one or more of the countries affected by a hurricane. While no request for retirement has ever been turned down, some storms such as Hurricane Gordon caused a great deal of death and destruction but nonetheless were not retired as the main country affected did not request retirement.

Answer 5

There is an alphabetical list that rotates every five years or so, Once a name has been used, it's dropped from the lists. There's on for the Atlantic Hurricanes, and one for the Pacific Hurricanes.

Answer 6

The alphabet and the Hurricane Center

Answer 7

i believe there's a chart they use that is going in a great loop. It won't overlap for a protracted time simply by fact it has hundreds of names, yet I heard this as a random relaxing fact and it ability there are names for the subsequent hurricanes earlier they are even in existance.

Answer 8

The one who discovered it
has the right to name it
as soon as it is reported to
the National Hurricane Center

Answer 9

They have a list of names of males, & a list of name of females.
They go back and forth i.e.:this hurricane has a male's name, the next will have a female's names, back & forth and it's in alpabetical order on each list.

Answer 10

there is a set list of names,once they reach the end of the list they go back to the 1st name,so in effect you can have several different Hurricane charlies !