Hurricane names and why....

In 1953, the National Weather Service picked up on the habit of naval meteorologists of naming the storms after women and named hurricane’s after women.

In 1979, male names were inserted to alternate with the female names, to the delight of women's-libbers everywhere, evidently.

There are actually six lists of names in use for storms in the Atlantic. These lists rotate, one each year; the list of this year's names will not be reused until 2011.

The names get recycled each time the list comes up, with one exception: storms so devastating that reusing the name is inappropriate. In this case, the name is taken off the list and another name is used to replace it; there will not be another Hurricane Andrew, because Andrew has been replaced by Alex on the list.

A storm must start as a Tropical Depression and move on to become a Tropical Storm before it is given a name. Once a storm is named, preparations for the possible hurricane should be well under way.

The list of hurricane names for 2007 is:

Andrea : Barry : Chantal : Dean : Erin : Felix : Gabrielle : Humberto : Ingrid : Jerry : Karen ; Lorenzo : Melissa : Noel : Olga : Pablo : Rebekah : Sebastien : Tanya : Van :
Wendy

Posted By: shoddy, Aug 21, 12:14:37