Why do we name hurricanes and name them alphabetically and why did they name them origianlly with female names only?
Experience shows that the use of short, distinctive given names in written as well as spoken communications is quicker and less subject to error than the older more cumbersome latitude-longitude identification methods.
History of Hurricane Names
Hurricanes used to named after the particular saint's day on which the hurricane occurred. Clement Wragge, an Australian meteorologist began giving women's names to tropical storms before the end of the l9th century.
In 1953, the United States weather services began using female names for storms. The practice of naming hurricanes solely after women ended in 1978 when men and women's names were included in the Eastern North Pacific storm lists.
Experience shows that the use of short, distinctive given names in written as well as spoken communications is quicker and less subject to error than the older more cumbersome latitude-longitude identification methods.
History of Hurricane Names
Hurricanes used to named after the particular saint's day on which the hurricane occurred. Clement Wragge, an Australian meteorologist began giving women's names to tropical storms before the end of the l9th century.
In 1953, the United States weather services began using female names for storms. The practice of naming hurricanes solely after women ended in 1978 when men and women's names were included in the Eastern North Pacific storm lists.
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