WHY DO THEY GIVE HURRICANES NAMES??

[PokerPaul]

to me that is the most idiotic thing.

why don't they just refer to them by a time and intensity nomanclature?

Like instead of calling it katrina or Rita, which sounds like cute little girls, why not the hurricane SEsummer05

Now they are saying they are running out of names to give these storms,....

And why arent tornados or earthquakes given names.

Maybe there is a rationale behind it so i'm all ears..

[jakethebake]

It's nicer to get killed by something with a name. More personal that way.

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why don't they just refer to them by a time and intensity nomanclature?

[/ QUOTE ]Intensities change. And, sometimes there is more than one hurricane (or tropical storm) active. For instance, right now tropical storm Philippe and hurricane Rita are both in the North Atlantic.

Names are re-used, except for a few that have been retired. I don't imagine there's really danger of running out of names any time soon.

[TylerD]

why are they always girls names then?

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why are they always girls names then?

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Because when they arrive, they're wet and wild, but when they go, they take your house and car.

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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE , NOAA, National Weather Service

Experience shows that the use of short, distintive given names in written as well as spoken communications is quicker and less subject to error than the older more cumbersome latitude-longitute identification methods. These advantages are specially important in exchanging detailed storm information between hundres widely scattered stations, coastal bases, and ships at sea.

The use of easily remembered names greatly reduces confusion when two or more tropical storms occur at the same time. For example, one hurricane can be moving slowly westward in the Gulf of Mexico , while at exactly the same time anothe hurricane can be moving rapidly Northward along the Atlantic coast. In the past, confusion and false rumors have arisen when storm advisories broadcast from radio statio were mistaken for warning concerning an entirely different storm located hundreds of miles away.

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

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[mshalen]

My 8 year old says if they had boys names they would be called himacanes.

Sorry couldn't resist.

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The most famous list with the longest history is the list of hurricane names of the Atlantic Ocean. This list contains alphabetically-ordered names from A (Q, U, X, Y, Z are skipped). On the birth of a new hurricane, a new name is chosen in the alphabetical order, and the next list is in use when the current list is exhausted. Only female names were used in the beginning, because hurricanes were named after girlfriends or wives of US Army Air Corp and Navy meteorologists. In 1979, however, male names are included in the list from an argument on gender equality (detailed information). And typhoon names in the Western North Pacific also followed the same rule through 1999.

Because of the influence of the American occupation of Japan just after the end of World War II through 1951, female names of typhoons were also used in Japan during that period (officially until Typhoon No. 2 of 1953), such as Typhoon KATHLEEN (194709), Typhoon IONE (194821), Typhoon KITTY (194910), Typhoon JANE (195028) and Typhoon RUTH (195115). In Okinawa prefecture, moreover, American occupation has continued until 1972, hence American names such as Typhoon SARAH (195914), Typhoon CORA (196618) and Typhoon DELLA (196816) are still widely remembered with severe disasters.



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[TylerD]

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