It begged the question for many: Who comes up with these names? It's a list that the World Meteorological Society agrees upon since storms don't just impact the U.S. July 29, 2020 at 2:10 PM CDT - Updated July 29 at 2:10 PM A Gray Media Group, Inc. Station - © 2002-2020 Gray Television, Inc. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - Back in the 1950s, meteorologists learned that naming tropical storms and hurricanes helps people remember the storms and communicate about them more effectively. The List of Florida hurricanes encompasses approximately 500 tropical or subtropical cyclones that affected the state of Florida.More storms hit Florida than any other U.S. state, and since 1851 only eighteen hurricane seasons passed without a known storm impacting the state. Today, there are six lists of hurricane names in use for Atlantic Ocean and Eastern North Pacific storms.
The six-year list of names are rotated. In 1979, male names were added. The U.S. then started to use female names until 1978. The World Meteorological Organization selects them. "I have no control over the names, folks, so don't tweet me and say, 'Can you name this hurricane?'
These languages represent all of the languages that are spoken in the countries that are impacted by tropical storms or hurricanes … "If you have three of them at one time, which one are you speaking of?" Most Popular on TIME. Every year, when the hurricane season starts, the first hurricane with a wind speed of 40 miles an hour or higher will be given the name that starts with A. They're not trying to hype up a system," Osterberg said, "but if you think about it, you go back to the old days, like the 1900s, you may have two or three storms out there are one time.
Hurricane season 2020 in the Atlantic doesn't begin until June, but the storms already have names. It is expected that Dorian will be retired after this year.
For example, there was Hurricane Santa Ana, which struck Puerto Rico on July 26, 1825. The U.S. National Hurricane Center started this practice in the early 1950s, but now, the World Meteorological Organization generates and maintains the list of hurricane names.In the early 1950s, a formal practice for storm naming was first developed for the Atlantic Ocean by the National Hurricane Center.
©2020 FOX Television StationsTropical Storm Isaias as it approached Florida in early August. '"Therefore, instead of using latitudes and longitudes, a naming system was created, to make storm systems easily identifiable -- but the selection process has changed over the years.At first, hurricanes in the Atlantic were originally named after the Catholic saint being honored on the day of the storm.
1. You need to differentiate, and it would be confusing to say, 'Well, look out for the hurricane,' and you're like, 'Which one are you talking about?
The reason why the hurricane names are in the alphabetic order is to identify the order of the hurricanes. "It has nothing to do with glorifying a system. LINK: Follow the tropics on MyFoxHurricane.com. Here's a list of this season's potential storms.
"The reason why Isaias is pronounced the way it is, is because on the National Hurricane Center website they have a phonetic pronunciation for every single storm," Osterberg said, which can be viewed below:Point blank, hurricane and tropical storm names make it easier for people to identify which tropical system a meteorologist is describing. The U.S. then started to use female names until 1978. Then, the method changed to naming storms by a phonetic alphabet, like Able, Baker and Charlie. For instance, the 2020 hurricane names will be used again in 2026 -- unless one or two are retired.
That means the list of this year’s hurricane names for each basin will come up again six years from now.When storms cause extensive damage like Katrina did, the name is retired. There will never be another tropical storm named Katrina again and the World Meteorological Organization replaces the name the next time they have a meeting. The WMO has been retiring names since 1954. At that time, storms were named according to a phonetic alphabet and the names used were the same for each hurricane season.In 1953, to avoid the repetitive use of names, the system was revised so that storms would be given female names.