who names hurricanes and cyclones and why do they name them those certain names?

Answer 1

The national weather services of countries that get hurricanes, tropical cyclones or typhoons submit lists of names to the World Meteorological Organisation which approves them. The names are supposed to reflect the ethnic make-up of the country involved. The lists of names are published and each warning centre has its own list. If a storm forms in their area, they get to name it.

Most countries submit names of people, alternating male and female. Thirteen countries affected by typhoons have combined names for their list but they also use names of flowers and other non-human names. The first country to use male and female names alternating was Australia in 1975. By 1979 the rest of the world had followed suit.

Tropical revolving storms in the Atlantic and the American eastrn Pacific are called Hurricanes. In the South China Sea (west Pacific) they are Typhoons. In the South Pacific and in the Indian Ocean they are Tropical Cyclones.

If you want to see the lists of names around the world, look here:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml

Answer 2

Hurricanes are in the Northern Hemisphere and Cyclones in the Southern. They pick a list of names each year to use. They retire names if they were a major storm, such as Katrina was in 2005.

Answer 3

What an interesting question. I always thought that this started in the distant past, with sailors who regarded everything to do with the sea as female, including ships. But some pretty basic reasearch finds that it started with an Aussie forecaster in the early 1900s who named them after political figures he disliked! He'd have a field day today, lolol. It seems the US government's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (including the National Hurricane Centre) ~ located in Florida, is responsible for naming storms or at least for maintaining the lists from which names are chosen. They publish lists of past and future names, which vary from region to region and which includes many non-gender specific names. I've put some links below, and bookmarked the site for future reference ~ fascinating stuff!! For me ~ a real 'myth buster' of a question! :-)

Answer 4

I am not sure of the names of the societies, but they are national societies of hurricanes, ect. that name them.
They just pick names starting at the beginning of the alphabet from a to z, and then they repeat over again with different names. They only use a name once, but they can change the spelling, and that would be another name.