who picks the names for the hurricanes?

Answer 1

How does a Hurricane get it's name and why?

Naming hurricanes began hundreds of years ago. But only recently did they begin to be named after women. It was during World War II that forecasters and meteorologists began using female names in identifying the storms. In 1953 the US weather service officially adopted the idea and created a new phonetic alphabet (international) of women's names from A to W. Perhaps Women's Liberation in the 60's and 70's helped change the naming of storms to include male names in 1978.
Why name a hurricane? It's much easier and less confusing than trying to remember a storm by it's longitude and latitude. It's also easier when you have more than one storm you are tracking. This is especially important in relaying messages between weather stations and ships or between ship to ship communications. Also, imagine your local weatherman being all tongue-tied with data. It's much easier for him or her to say "Hurricane Jane Reports" or even for historical weather records such as Hurricane Camille.
Because storms know no boundaries as far as geographical countries, the names have been given some international flair. Who picks the names? They are agreed upon during the World Meteorological Organization by all the nations involved. How they come up with the names to vote on, I'm not sure. Do they nominate the names of their children, wives, girlfriends, relatives? (If anyone knows please write me. I wrote them but they've never answered me.) Names can be retired and replaced with another names in the event of severe storms. For example: You can have TS Jane (Tropical Storm Jane) that can turn into Hurricane Jane. There have been variations. For example: Hurricane Mark and Hurricane Marc.
Do they run out of names? There are two lists. One for the Atlantic Ocean and one for the Eastern Pacific Ocean. These lists are rotated year by year. As a result, names in 2001 will also be used in 2007. Now, the exception is the Central and Western Pacific Ocean. Those names are not rotated on a yearly basis.
The National Hurricane Center near Miami, Florida USA keeps an alert eye on all oceanic storms. If winds are more than 39 miles per hour, it is officially a Tropical Storm and will be given a name. If it's under 39 miles per hour, well it's just a mighty big gusty wind. ;)
And here are the names they picked for 2007:
Andrea
Barry
Chantal
Dean
Erin
Felix
Gabrielle
Humberto
Ingrid
Jerry
Karen
Lorenzo
Melissa
Noel
Olga
Pablo
Rebekah
Sebastien
Tanya
Van
Wendy

2008:
Arthur
Bertha
Cristobal
Dolly
Edouard
Fay
Gustav
Hanna
Ike
Josephine
Kyle
Lili*
Marco
Nana
Omar
Paloma
Rene
Sally
Teddy
Vicky
Wilfred
2009:
Ana
Bill
Claudette
Danny
Erika
Fred
Grace
Henri
Ida
Joaquin
Kate
Larry
Mindy
Nicholas
Odette
Peter
Rose
Sam
Teresa
Victor
Wanda
2010:
Alex
Bonnie
Colin
Danielle
Earl
Fiona
Gaston
Hermine
Igor
Julia
Karl
Lisa
Matthew
Nicole
Otto
Paula
Richard
Shary
Tomas
Virginie
Walter

Answer 2

Tropical storms and hurricanes are given names to dodge confusion whilst greater effective than one hurricane is being accompanied on the comparable time. A hurricane is termed whilst it reaches tropical hurricane potential with winds of 39 mph. A hurricane will become a typhoon whilst its wind velocity reaches seventy 5 mph. American climate companies began assigning females' names to substantial tropical storms in 1953. curiously they have been given the assumption from protection stress forecasters. Later the assigning of names for Atlantic hurricanes replaced into became over to the international Meteorological enterprise, a UN corporation, theoretically making it a worldwide duty. (Naming of hurricanes interior the eastern Pacific is dealt with with the aid of a bilateral settlement with Mexico.) Clement Wragge, an Australian meteorologist began giving women's names to tropical storms before the tip of the l9th century. In 1953, united statesa. deserted as perplexing a 2-365 days old plan to call storms by capacity of a phonetic alphabet (in a position, Baker, Charlie) whilst a clean, international phonetic alphabet replaced into presented. That 365 days, this united states's climate amenities began utilising woman names for storms. The prepare of naming hurricanes totally after women got here to an bring about 1978 whilst men's and girls's names have been blanketed interior the eastern North Pacific hurricane lists. In 1979, woman and male names have been blanketed in lists for the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico.

Answer 3

In 1953, the National Weather Service picked up on the habit of Naval meteorologists of naming the storms after women. Ships were always referred to as female, and were often given women's names. The storms' temperament certainly seemed female enough, shifting directions at a whim on a moment's notice.

In 1979, male names were inserted to alternate with the female names,to the delight of women's-libbers everywhere.

Answer 4

World Meteorological Organization

Answer 5

The names are picked by the Weather Professionals They have to be easily understood and clear and precise over radio ~~

Answer 6

as far as I know they have a list of names...each new season they start at the top of the list and go down...