Who decides on the names for hurricanes and where do the names come from ?

Answer 1

The National Weather service...and they start with A and go to Z I believe they leave out letters like Q and stuff that would be hard to find names for...they alternate boy and girl and when a HUGE storm comes through they retire the name

Answer 2

Names are not only assigned to hurricanes, but to any tropical storm system with winds of 39 mph or greater. The National Hurricane Center maintains six lists of names for the Atlantic, and six for the Pacific. Each list has one name for each letter of the alphabet, except that both lists omit Q and U, and the Atlantic lists also omit X, Y, and Z. The lists are maintained in order, and alternate starting with a man's or woman's name for the letter A, and are aligned opposite to each other in this respect each year. For example, the 2006 storm names start with Alberto in the Atlantic and Aletta in the Pacific. The 2007 names are Andrea and Alvin for those basins. The lists also alternate genders down the line. The 2006 Atlantic names continue with Beryl, Chris, Debbie, Ernesto, and so on. The Pacific uses English and Spanish names, while the Atlantic also uses French names, due to the native languages of the people affected by storms in these regions. If a hurricane has caused particularly devastating damage or casualties, the affection nation may request that the World Meteorological Organization retire the name. This results in the name never again being used for a tropical storm. The unretired names from the list are used again six years later, with new names added to replace any that are retired.

In 2005, the Atlantic list was used up due to record tropical activity. Six additional tropical storms formed, and were named after the first six letter of the Greek alphabet, a system that has been announced as the current standard for any future occurences of this circumstance. It is not clear what would happen if such a storm were so damaging as to have its name retired.

Answer 3

There is a list that you can look up online...... the list repeats every couple of years..... like in 2010 there will be another hurricane/tropical storm Matthew. When Katrina hit they retired that name..... so another will be added. Each year has a set of names and they run the entire alphabet..... except the random letters such as "x". then once those letters run out they begin to use the greek alphabet starting with alpha, beta..... so on and so forth.

Answer 4

The World Meteorological Organization uses six lists in rotation. The same lists are reused every six years. The only time a new name is added is if a hurricane is very deadly or costly. Then the name is retired and a new name is chosen.

Answer 5

Good question. All I know is that they name them in alphabetica order alternating, male and female names. Long ago they used to only use female names but now they use male names also.

Answer 6

i think they started naming them in the 50's and they go alternating in alphabetical order over male and female names...Aaron would be the first, then the next one that year would be something like Abby or whatever...they will reuse these ever 10 years or so except the ones that have been terribly catastrophic, like Katrina

Answer 7

hurricanes are named after women because they are fast and when they leave they take your car and money....lol kidding

the answers above were correct they alternate from a-z and they alternate from boys names to girls names...

Answer 8

If you notice they go down the alphabet and thats where they get the names from,when they get threw with the alphabet they go to the greek and start using their names

Answer 9

Yep, and that all of them artwork for the national climate provider as meteorologists, etc. i think of they began with the A's first...yet i'm unsure HOW they arise with the names, yet i think of you hit the nail on the pinnacle with how they meet to do it. call your interior reach information station's climate dept. they are able to in all probability make it easier to know the actual answer...i'm in simple terms guessing, yet you're in all probability good.

Answer 10

Have a look here:

http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/hurrname.html