![]() Forecasters in the Australian and South Pacific regions (east of longitude 90 degrees East, and south of the equator) formally started to christen tropical storms with female names in 1964. For example, an Australian forecaster named Clement Wragge began to name tropical cyclones after politicians he disliked just before the start of the nineteenth century. In 1979, the World Meteorological Organization and the National Weather Service (NWS) amended their lists to also include male names.Ĭonventions developed differently in other parts of the world. Weather Bureau switched the list to female names. ![]() From 1950 to 1952, meteorologists named tropical cyclones in the North Atlantic Ocean according to the phonetic alphabet (Able, Baker, Charlie, etc.). That apparently started the ball rolling in the United States. For example, fierce Hurricane Santa Ana struck Puerto Rico on July 26, 1825, and Hurricane San Felipe (the first) and Hurricane San Felipe (the second) hit Puerto Rico on Septemand September 13, 1928, respectively.ĭuring World War II, Navy and Army Corp forecasters informally named Pacific storms after their girlfriends or wives (who may not have been happy if they had known). Indeed, islanders named hurricanes after saints (when hurricanes arrived on a saint's day, locals christened the storm with the name of that saint). In the Atlantic, the earliest practice of naming Atlantic hurricanes goes back a few hundred years to the West Indies. It turns out that the convention for naming tropical cyclones has quite a long (and in some cases, humorous) history, and each ocean basin has its own unique history of naming tropical cyclones. The names of impactful tropical cyclones often become forever linked to the death and destruction that a storm causes, and for some folks, these names may conjure up memories of personal hardships. ![]() Do any of these names ring a bell? They're all names of devastating hurricanes that have ravaged parts of the United States since 2005.
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