how come hurricanes have names of human beings.like hurricane felix?

Answer 1

How are hurricanes named?
Forecasters began naming hurricanes in order to provide ease of communication between them and the general public in areas regarding forcasts, watches and warnings. By naming hurricanes, there is a reduction in confusion about what storm is being described.

Prior to 1950, hurricanes were assigned names by the year in which they occurred plus a letter from the alphabet (i.e. 1942A, 1942B, etc.) It then became the trend to give hurricanes human names. Experience shows that the use of girls' and boys' names in written and spoken communication is shorter, quicker, and causes fewer mistakes than any other hurricane identification used to date.

Answer 2

Well, they used to only have women's names, so let's give the geniuses at NOAA a little credit, OK? These guys are not always socially adjusted, you know. When's the last time you met a really hip meteorologist? The ones on my local stations are total dweebs!

Also, you will remember back in 1995, there were so many hurricanes, they ran out of names. When this happens, they use Greek alphabet names, like Alpha, Beta, etc. So, not all hurricanes actually have human names.

I know (via my wife and old friends) of some of the meteorologists and scientists who worked at NOAA and the National Hurricane Center back in the 60s and 70s. Back then, the storms were named after their wives, girlfriends and daughters. Fun fact to know and promptly forget.

Answer 3

Quote from the National Hurricane Center: "Experience shows that the use of short, distinctive given names in written as well as spoken communications is quicker and less subject to error than the older more cumbersome latitude-longitude identification methods. These advantages are especially important in exchanging detailed storm information between hundreds of widely scattered stations, coastal bases, and ships at sea."

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml

Answer 4

Would you prefer Hurricane Dog? Or Hurricane Antelope?

Answer 5

Perhaps it is very difficult to give it a very long name...

They just stick to a simple way of naming them...

Besides, a hurricane doesn't last forever...

So I think it is better if we just leave it as it is...

Answer 6

i think they do that to remember the storms easily and for easy refference....instead of a long name