The latest name assigned to a tropical storm – Flossie – in the Eastern Pacific prompted more than a few raised eyebrows and ...

The World Meteorological Organization maintains a list of 21 hurricane names for each year. In especially busy years, a ...

Hurricane names were all female before 1978. Retired names of hurricanes and tropical storms in the Atlantic basin from 1954 to 1980. 1950s. 1960s. 1970s. Hurricane names were all female before 1978.

In 1953, the National Hurricane Center of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration started using female names alphabetically for tropical storms and hurricanes in the Pacific and ...

Starting in 1953, storms were given female names. Rumor has it that a member of the committee was angry at his wife and wanted to name a storm after her. Whether that’s true, Alice was the first ...

Since then, the World Meteorological Organization’s Hurricane Committee has made a push to include a diverse pool of ethnic male and female names. This list of names will be reused in 2031 with ...

The names for the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season are Andrea, Barry, Chantal, Dexter, Erin, Fernand, ... This year starts with a female name, and next year will begin with a male name.

Hurricane names history. Before hurricanes had names, ... In 1953, the Weather Bureau began using female names for Atlantic storms and male names for Pacific storms.

There are no names for Q, U, X, Y and Z, and each of the 21 names alternate from female to male. This year starts with a female name and next year will begin with a male name.

The names of future Atlantic storms that form between now and 2030 have been published by the United Nations World Meteorological Organization. Hurricane season starts June 1. The Post and Courier ...

Hurricane names are not chosen randomly. Behind each designation lies a precise procedure managed on a global scale. This ...