Have you ever wondered how the tropical storm and hurricanes were named? Not to make this catastrophic storm feel friendly, that’s for sure. The storms have been named to make it easier to remember. But who exactly picks the names of the hurricanes?
Meteorological officials decided the names of the hurricanes years ago and re-used the same names every few years. CNBC looked at the history and practice of naming storms that swept across the Caribbean and devastated the country’s south and east coasts.
In the 1950s, meteorologists realized that keeping track of anonymous storms is difficult – especially if multiple storms occur at any one time. By 1953, meteorologists in the United States were using the name for tropical storms and cyclones.
A list of names was established by the World Meteorological Organization, a UN agency. WMO maintains a list of 21 names for each of the six years, which is repeated. In other words, the same list is used every 7 years. So within a decade, you could hit two stormy countries of the same name.
Alternate names between males and females are on the list each year: That way, never have two storms on the 1 year of the same gender.
Only after the list was changed did the storm become so expensive or severe that the WMO found that it would be inappropriate to use the name again. We will no longer have Hurricanes Katrina, for example, or any other Hurricane Sandy.
The World Meteorological Agency for developing the names of both the North Pacific and Atlantic storms uses six lists of names for storms in the Atlantic Ocean and the Eastern North Pacific. These lists rotate, every year.
In addition, the names chosen by the regional tropical cyclone authorities reflect the names in that area.
World Meteorological Organization WMO maintains a rotating list of names suitable for each tropical cyclone basin. If a cyclone is particularly severe or expensive, its name is retired and replaced by another. Twenty-one named tropical cyclones occur in the Atlantic Basin during one season, and additional storms will be named from the Greek alphabet.
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