Hurricane Names

Slenderman - Doctor · 08-27-2011, 02:32 PM

I could Google this but I thought I'd ask you guys first. Just heard of a hurricane/weather warning (firstly on the MBP sticky) and I was curious as to how hurricanes get named?

Stay safe, all

Riley Taylor · 08-27-2011, 02:34 PM

They start with an A name, then a B name, and so on, starting over at the beginning of the year. One year all the names are male. The next, all the names are female. They just choose random names, as far as I know, but I think it's... 12 years before they can use the same name again? Or something like that.

zmoody1 · 08-27-2011, 02:34 PM

no idea. but it is a good point tho.

Slenderman - Doctor · 08-27-2011, 02:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Riley Taylor

They start with an A name, then a B name, and so on, starting over at the beginning of the year. One year all the names are male. The next, all the names are female. They just choose random names, as far as I know, but I think it's... 12 years before they can use the same name again? Or something like that.

So is there an archive somewhere of the names? And who names them?

Riley Taylor · 08-27-2011, 02:37 PM

1. Probably just the same weather records as everything else.
2. The Illuminati. Or maybe like, some government-run weather agency or something. I'm honestly not sure.

zmoody1 · 08-27-2011, 02:42 PM

Names are assigned in advance for six-year cycles. The names are suggested by countries that lie in the path of hurricanes. The names must be approved by the Region 4 Hurricane Committee of the World Meteorological Organization, which is made up of representatives of countries affected by hurricanes. Once a tropical storm develops, staff members at the National Hurricane Center near Miami, Florida, automatically assign it the next name on the list.

googled it and this is what i founds

ottawaguy · 08-27-2011, 03:26 PM

And for equality between the sexes, they alternate between male names and female names. The feminists got upset that they were only using female names.

Slenderman - Doctor · 08-27-2011, 03:27 PM

I found names to be somewhat odd at first but then I suppose you can't differentiate between "the really windy one", "the one with lots of rain" and "that one the other year".

sweetsong · 08-27-2011, 09:17 PM

Haha. Here in Florida people talk about the storms that happened up to 10 or 15 years ago by name and if you aren't familiar with the lingo, you'd think they were talking about a super abusive boyfriend/girlfriend or something. :P

loke · 08-27-2011, 09:29 PM

They use 6 different name lists and they rotate it every 6 years. So 2011 names are names used from 2005 EXCEPT the ones that got retired.

Names that get retired is shockingly not up to the NHC (National Hurricane Center) rather, it is up to the WMO, (World Meteorological Organization).

Names that get retired are never used again. They get replaced with a new name. Of course, by gosh no one knows why, they decided to replace Katrina with an even more scary name... Katia. LOL.

In the north ATL (Atlantic) Basin they don't use letters Q, U, X, Y and Z. And if we use up all the letters which we did in 2005 and might also do it in 2011 since its been really active so far, we go into the Greek Alphabet.

2005 was a hyper active year, 27 named storms and one unnamed storm. How the NHC missed that one is way beyond me.

Eastern Pacific is pretty much the same except they use more letters than the north Atlantic basin.

And to add, they alternate male, female. If female is first, it would go female, male.

This all was from my own knowledge

Captain Harkness · 08-28-2011, 01:07 PM

I thought only hurricanes were female, but Torandos were male?

Avelyn · 08-28-2011, 01:10 PM

Well how does hurricane Avelyn sounds? :-P

Or playfulgirl? Harkness? Zmoody? Riley Taylor?

Or maybe even hurrican missnaughty....

Hahaha!

Xxx

Rachie · 08-28-2011, 01:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sweetsong

Haha. Here in Florida people talk about the storms that happened up to 10 or 15 years ago by name and if you aren't familiar with the lingo, you'd think they were talking about a super abusive boyfriend/girlfriend or something. :P

You mean like.

Things still havnt improved after Lili caused all the devastation, she even ripped the washing off the line and destroyed my life. I was most certainly glad when she finally died and everyone could rebuild there lifes again

Doctor
Here is some to watch out for in the future WEBSITE FOR FUTURE HURRICANE NAMES

loke · 08-28-2011, 01:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rachie

You mean like.

Things still havnt improved after Lili caused all the devastation, she even ripped the washing off the line and destroyed my life. I was most certainly glad when she finally died and everyone could rebuild there lifes again

Doctor
Here is some to watch out for in the future WEBSITE FOR FUTURE HURRICANE NAMES

Those lists are just repeated. If a name gets retired, it will not appear on the list 6 years from now.

sweetsong · 08-29-2011, 11:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Captain Harkness

I thought only hurricanes were female, but Torandos were male?

One of the hurricanes they always talk about was named Andrew, so that must not be true. (:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rachie

You mean like.

Things still havnt improved after Lili caused all the devastation, she even ripped the washing off the line and destroyed my life. I was most certainly glad when she finally died and everyone could rebuild there lifes again

Haha exactly. :P

08-27-2011, 02:32 PM	#1
Slenderman - Doctor Truth or Dare Zealot Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 6,760	Hurricane Names I could Google this but I thought I'd ask you guys first. Just heard of a hurricane/weather warning (firstly on the MBP sticky) and I was curious as to how hurricanes get named? Stay safe, all

08-27-2011, 02:34 PM	#3
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08-27-2011, 02:42 PM	#6
zmoody1 getDare Sweetheart Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: canada Posts: 308	Names are assigned in advance for six-year cycles. The names are suggested by countries that lie in the path of hurricanes. The names must be approved by the Region 4 Hurricane Committee of the World Meteorological Organization, which is made up of representatives of countries affected by hurricanes. Once a tropical storm develops, staff members at the National Hurricane Center near Miami, Florida, automatically assign it the next name on the list. googled it and this is what i founds __________________ What do you see when you turn out the lights? I can't tell you but i know it's mine Oh i get by with a little help from my friends mmmmm get high with a little help from my friends mmmmm gonna try with with a little help from my friends little help from my friends - The Beatles

08-27-2011, 09:17 PM	#9
sweetsong getDare Succubus Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: ♥ In your dreams ♥ Posts: 1,733 Blog Entries: 98	Haha. Here in Florida people talk about the storms that happened up to 10 or 15 years ago by name and if you aren't familiar with the lingo, you'd think they were talking about a super abusive boyfriend/girlfriend or something. :P __________________ . siggy made by stellz [03:54:06 PM] jamness: ‹@G.J.› She... kisses and stuff... shes weird. [03:54:39 PM] G.J.: ‹@jamness› That seems like normal Sweets to me XD

08-27-2011, 09:29 PM	#10
loke Account Banned Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: US in New England Posts: 251 Blog Entries: 73	They use 6 different name lists and they rotate it every 6 years. So 2011 names are names used from 2005 EXCEPT the ones that got retired. Names that get retired is shockingly not up to the NHC (National Hurricane Center) rather, it is up to the WMO, (World Meteorological Organization). Names that get retired are never used again. They get replaced with a new name. Of course, by gosh no one knows why, they decided to replace Katrina with an even more scary name... Katia. LOL. In the north ATL (Atlantic) Basin they don't use letters Q, U, X, Y and Z. And if we use up all the letters which we did in 2005 and might also do it in 2011 since its been really active so far, we go into the Greek Alphabet. 2005 was a hyper active year, 27 named storms and one unnamed storm. How the NHC missed that one is way beyond me. Eastern Pacific is pretty much the same except they use more letters than the north Atlantic basin. And to add, they alternate male, female. If female is first, it would go female, male. This all was from my own knowledge __________________ If you live in Massachusetts and like or love to chase storms, we should set something up and go chasing together. I like to humiliate noteworthy! You all can too, feel free! Ok, so everyone knows, I been on getdare since October 24th 2008. This is just my new account, thats all. I was lokelake, changed it to loke. So I guess you could say I am still using my same name, just the shortened version of it. Last edited by loke; 08-27-2011 at 10:22 PM.

08-27-2011, 02:34 PM	#2
Riley Taylor getDare Sweetheart Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 304 Blog Entries: 1	They start with an A name, then a B name, and so on, starting over at the beginning of the year. One year all the names are male. The next, all the names are female. They just choose random names, as far as I know, but I think it's... 12 years before they can use the same name again? Or something like that.

08-27-2011, 02:37 PM	#5
Riley Taylor getDare Sweetheart Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 304 Blog Entries: 1	1. Probably just the same weather records as everything else. 2. The Illuminati. Or maybe like, some government-run weather agency or something. I'm honestly not sure.

08-27-2011, 03:26 PM	#7
ottawaguy Member Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 90 Blog Entries: 2	And for equality between the sexes, they alternate between male names and female names. The feminists got upset that they were only using female names.

08-27-2011, 03:27 PM	#8
Slenderman - Doctor Truth or Dare Zealot Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 6,760	I found names to be somewhat odd at first but then I suppose you can't differentiate between "the really windy one", "the one with lots of rain" and "that one the other year".

08-28-2011, 01:07 PM	#11
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08-28-2011, 01:10 PM	#12
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