How do cyclones get their names?

Question

i mean names like....tracey and nelson

Answer 1

Tropical cyclones are named to provide ease of communication between forecasters and the general public regarding forecasts, watches, and warnings. Having a name also raises the profile of the cyclone heightening the public's awareness. Since the storms can often last a week or longer and that more than one can be occurring in the same region at the same time, names can also reduce the confusion about what storm is being described.

Each Australian Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre (Perth, Darwin and Brisbane) maintains a list of around 50 names (arranged alphabetically and alternating male and female). A name remains on the list until its corresponding cyclone severely impacts the coast (e.g.Rosita and Vance). The name is then permanently retired and replaced with another (of the same gender and first letter). It takes around 10 years from the time a name is put on the list to when it is first used to name a cyclone.

The convention of naming Australian tropical cyclones began in 1964. The first Western Australian named cyclone was Bessie that formed on 6 January 1964. Female names were used exclusively until the current convention of alternating male and female names commenced in 1975.

Answer 2

Names for cyclones are chosen from a list at the Bureau of Met in alphabetical order. If a cyclone causes mass destruction then the name is retired just like Tracy and Larry. Those names wont be used any more.

Answer 3

Random , but fairly common, names are listed alphabetically. There is a list of male names and a list of female names. As tropical lows have very low air pressure and high winds they are defined as "cyclones". They are given names alternately from the male and female list.

Thereafter the cyclones each run their own quixotic courses.

Once ,perhaps because of their unpredictability and men's fearful prejudice about females cyclones all had women's names.

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 (List I). The lists make use of names from both sexes. They are in alphabetical order and lists are recycled after six years, with List V in use for the 2007 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.

Eastern North Pacific naming follows the same scheme as the North Atlantic, but with its own lists. The present naming system was introduced a year earlier than the Atlantic system, when List IV was used anomalously in 1978, but List I was used in 1979 in parallel with that in the Atlantic. Names starting with X, Y and Z were only added in 1985 when the number of storms threatened to exhaust the list and are repeated every two years instead of every six as very few names begin with X, Y and Z ("Xina" was used in 1985, and "Zeke" in 1992). Hurricane names are retired as in the Atlantic, but names are more rarely retired as they are rarely damaging; the last hurricane to have its name retired was Hurricane Kenna of 2002.

You can get more info here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_cyclone_names

Answer 5

it originated from another country, and is named in alphabetical order, thats why you get unusual names sometimes and this has been in place for many many years, I seen this documentary on it on a tv show recently this year, but cannot recall which one. If I remember I will let you know.

Answer 6

Because of how the winds turn in the cyclone
And if the winds turn the other way than it's called an anitcyclone.

Answer 7

they are named from the people who find them, and family members names.!

Answer 8

weather station employees and their familys