why do they give hurricanes male names?

Question

like hurricane dean for instance. who choses these names?

Answer 1

where i live in nortrh Queensland way back in 1887 we had an encentric guy working at the weather bureau called clement wragge ; he is the first person believed to have named cyclones ( in your neck of the woods , their hurricanes and travel in the opposite direction ) anyhow originally he used names from Greek and roman mythology, female names and politicians names . but this led to abit of propaganda , as mister wragge ( virtually hung s---t ) on some pollie he didn't agree with .
anyway by 1908 the idea of naming cyclones was dropped until 1963 and when reintroduced ; were all given FEMALE names .
this was regarded as discriminatory ( to the male folk ) and it was decided that alternate male / female names would be used in future ( from 1975 ) the very year Darwin was blown off the map by cyclone TRACY !
hopes this helps . good luck .

Answer 2

Hurricanes used to have exclusively female names, because hurricanes were "unpredictable." My dad told me that they changed this in the 70's when shrieking feminists complained about it.

In even years, the first hurricane is named for a male, then the next female, then male, female, etc. In odd years, the first hurricane is named for a female, then male, etc. The current hurricane, "Dean," was the fourth named storm, named even before "Erin," which already came and went.

Answer 3

There are lists of alphabetically ordered names prepared in advance: six lists for the northeastern Pacific (24 names, omitting "Q" and "U") and six lists for the northern Atlantic (21 names, omitting "Q", "U", "X", "Y", and "Z"). Each one alternates between male and female names, and they alternate from year to year whether the first name on the list is male or female. Also, the two oceans will have opposite genders in the first position in a given year.

Before this system was established, tropical systems were given names by forecasters in a somewhat haphazard fashion, and the names were always female.

Answer 4

They used to give them all female names but then the women's libbers started moaning and asking why natural disasters were all given female names so they changed and started alternating from male to female names.

It may seem that more of one than another are being chosen but we only hear about the major hurricanes, there are lots we don't hear about.

Answer 5

For a long time they were all given female names. They're currently going through a phase of male names. It will be female names again soon enough. There's no sexism, it's just the naming policy.

Answer 6

They used to be given female names all the time, until there was some kind of complaint by feminists and then they started changing them. That's why there are more recorded hurricanes with female names than there are males.. It stemmed from the belief that women are always huffing and puffing and destroying things around them when they're angry...apparently...

Answer 7

They get male and female names these days. They alternate gender names on different years. One year they will name them: male, female, male, female and so on and the next year they will begin naming with the opposite gender and name them female, male, female, male and so on.

Answer 8

They alternative between male and female names.

Answer 9

Absobloodlylutely

Answer 10

there are female names too, my state got hit by two in the same year named Rita and Katrina--girl names