How Hurricanes Get Their Names

BosnBill

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Hurricane names are chosen from a list selected by the World Meteorological Organization. There are six separate lists of names for Atlantic Ocean storms, with one list used each year.

In 1953, the National Weather Service picked up on the habit of Naval meteorologists of naming the storms after women. Ships were commonly referred to as female, and were often given women's names.

In 1979, male names were added to alternate with the female names.

The six lists used for storms in the Atlantic rotate annually. The list of this year's names will not be reused until 2019. 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.

Source: Article from Boating Magazine
 

nathan

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they need to name one Nathan and have it hit texas. it would be a huge storm that wouldn't cause any damage but would fill up all the lakes!! :rof:
 

BosnBill

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Hurricane Nathan. I like it. We'll probably never have one tho. N is too deep in the alphabet.

You must be baking down there. It's 95-97 here with oppressive humidity. I cant imagine the lakes down there being any worse than they were last year. Texas is turning into a desert.
 

nathan

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its weird it has been raining here in Waco so temperatures have been in the 80s Waco lake should be up nicely but travis has only rose by only 2 foot.
 
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