how do they choose names for the hurricanes hitting the US?

Answer 1

A couple of things:

Hurricanes are not named based on whether they hit the US or not. They are split into Atlantic and Pacific tropical storms and named accordingly, as Trevor did (for the Atlantic storms). When the first Atlantic storm is given a boy's name the first Pacific one will have a girl's, and vice versa. So, while Hurricane Flossie, a "girl", almost hit Hawaii, the next Atlantic storm will be Felix, a "boy".

The other important thing to realize is that the "named" storms are not all hurricanes - they are named when they become subtropical or tropical storms (winds above 39 mph). The will not become a hurricane until winds get higher than 74 mph. So far, there have been 5 Atlantic storms named, but only one was a hurricane. Similarly, there have been 6 named Pacific storms, but only two hurricanes.

Answer 2

Hurricans are alternately given male, female, male, female names.

The first hurricane of the season is also alternately named. This year it was female name, next year it will be a male name etc.

This year the naming is Andrea, Barry, Chantal, Dean, Erin, Felix, Gabrielle, Humberto, Ingrid, Jerry, Karen, Lorenzo,
Melissa, Noel, Olga, Pablo, Rebakah, Sebastian, Tanya, Van, Wendy.

If they run out of people's names as they did in 2005 then the names of the Greek letters are used - Alpha, Beta, Gamma etc

Answer 3

part of that answer is they choose them alphabetically,and by girls name and then by a boys name,so on.hurricane ally then hurricane alan,hurricane brianna,hurricane ben so on.or that could be cyclones but im sure it was the same principle.

Answer 4

its based on an alphabet system.