Why do we name hurricanes?

The history of naming hurricanes

No one is exactly sure when hurricanes were first started to be

named. Weather history seems to point to only the biggest

hurricanes being named. It is felt by scientists that the first

person to ever name a hurricane was probably an Australian

scientist named Clement Wragge.

Scientists feel that Clement had a very interesting way of

choosing his names. It seems that Clement Wragge named

stronger hurricanes after his friends and the weaker hurricanes

after his enemies.

The current way of naming hurricanes was started in the year 1941.

Female names were used to name hurricanes in the year 1953 and

the male names were used in 1979. The first hurricane of the

hurricane season always starts with the letter "A" and the next one

starts with the letter "B". The names continue on through the

alphabet although it's very rare for a letter past "O" to be needed.

The reason for this is because there are usually not that many

hurricanes in one hurricane season. And the letters

"Q,U,X, Y, and Z" are not used to name hurricanes in the

Atlantic and Western Pacific Oceans.

Where do the names comes from?

The names all start with a letter of the alphabet and go in

alphabetical order with female and male names together.

If a female name is first then a male name comes next

followed by a female and then a male and this pattern

continues until there are enough names. Tropical storms

and hurricanes are named in both the Pacific and Atlantic

Oceans. In the case of a storm forming in the Atlantic,

Caribbean, or Gulf of Mexico and then crossing over to

the Pacific Ocean the storm then loses its original name

and is re-named a new name from the list for the Pacific

Ocean. The list of names rotates through every six years

which means that the names for the 2000 storm season

will be used again in the year 2006 as long as they are

not retired. A hurricanes name is retired if the storm

has been a very damaging and devastating storm.

2006 Hurricane Season Atlantic Basin Names

Alberto

Beryl

Chris

Debby

Ernesto

Florence

Gordon

Helene

Isaac

Joyce

Kirk

Leslie

Michael

Nadine

Oscar

Patty

Rafael

Sandy

Tony

Here you go on why they name them:

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/general/lib/reason.html

I think tornadoes and thunderstorms aren't named because there a lot more of them then there are hurricanes. And as the website says, it's easier to say especially when tropical storms and hurricanes last longer than most tornadoes and thunderstorms.

Meteorologists used to use a complicated latitude/longitude-based system to name hurricanes. No one liked it, so the current system of naming hurricanes was created.

Hurricanes are named because they are distinct and they can be tracked for weeks before dying. Thunderstorms are too random to be named, and frontal storm systems are too common and usually not dangerous enough. Tornadoes aren't named, despite their devastation, because they are difficult (if not impossible) to track and they only last an hour or two at the most.

Anony: Ok, the way they name them is they go through every letter of the alphabet starting with A. (If it was the first hurricane we ever named it would be like Hurricane Alyssa) Till Z (Hurricane Zac). Then at Z we start over at A. We name them so their easiy to identify.

Me: WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We do NOT go all the way to the letter Z in hurricane naming. W is the last letter used. If it goes past that, we start using the Greek alphabet. Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta.....

If they named tornadoes and thunderstorms, you'd need tens of thousands of names a year.

Ok, the way they name them is they go through every letter of the alphabet starting with A. (If it was the first hurricane we ever named it would be like Hurricane Alyssa) Till Z (Hurricane Zac). Then at Z we start over at A. We name them so their easiy to identify.

solid question, Fonzie (and you're actual, Earl become no pearl of a typhoon by ability of the time he drew on the fringe of recent England!) How approximately those: typhoon Spiro - rejected by using actuality it would be in person-friendly words a nattering nabob of negativity typhoon gasoline Guzzler - rejected by using actuality each time forecasters tried to persist with the call, the typhoon ran out of gasoline typhoon Aesop - by ability of nature, Hurricanes have not have been given any morals typhoon Schwarzenegger - perfect, a typhoon is somewhat reported as a typhoon if it originated contained interior the Tropics Edit: hi Vapor Trails!!

They are named alphabetically i.e. Andrea, Bob, Callisto, etc etc.

Because hurricanes are less abundant than tornadoes and other weather phenomenon.

well...we must not have enough things to do

how else would we remember them