Monroe Chat

I knew the storms were named - I don't know the history or the why's or who gets the privilege - a little research is needed me thinks

Will say ( if you were curious) that evidently someone changed their mind over the Claudette choice as the same station that published these names also reported the following:

MIAMI -- Hurricane Carlos is heading west over the open waters of the Pacific Ocean and is expected to get stronger.

The Category 1 hurricane has maximum sustained winds near 85 mph. But forecasters say Carlos is expected to strengthen and could become a major hurricane over the next day or two.

As of 5 a.m. EDT, the hurricane was centered about 1,085 miles southwest of the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California peninsula.

Carlos is moving west near 13 mph on a path taking it farther out to sea.

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(Reported by WLWT)
Here is a list of this year's names for Atlantic tropical storms and hurricanes:

Ana

Bill

Claudette

Danny

Erika

Fred

Grace

Henri

Ida

Joaquin

Kate

Larry

Mindy

Nicholas

Odette

Peter

Rose

Sam

Teresa

Victor

Wanda

All huricanes were named after women until recently. I think it had something to do with the destruction that each can produce.
In recent years (maybe the last 10 or so) someone complained about hurricanes being named strtictly after women and the policy changed.

You are quite the little snot Mr. Fixitman ..... I would have thought the selection of female names was more about their unpredictable power and ability to put Men in hiding rather than your interpretation ...

fixitman wrote:All huricanes were named after women until recently. I think it had something to do with the destruction that each can produce.
In recent years (maybe the last 10 or so) someone complained about hurricanes being named strtictly after women and the policy changed.

They use to presidents way back in the day now their just cycled through on a 4 year basis and storms like Katrina that cause significant damage are retired and replaced. What interesting is that were in mid July and we have 0 named storms so far. MUST BE GLOBAL WARMING!!!

HRH,
It may very well be that we are both right. By the time a man figures out what's on the horizon, he's already been sucked into a bad situation that's only going to get worse.
To be fair, I'm sure there are semi-crazy men in the world as well as semi-crazy women. I just haven't come across any.

Interesting..
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. These advantages are especially important in exchanging detailed storm information between hundreds of widely scattered stations, coastal bases, and ships at sea.

Since 1953, Atlantic tropical storms have been named from lists originated by the National Hurricane Center. They are now maintained and updated by an international committee of the World Meteorological Organization. The original name lists featured only women's names. In 1979, men's names were introduced and they alternate with the women's names. Six lists are used in rotation. Thus, the 2009 list will be used again in 2015. Here is more information about the history of naming hurricanes.

The only time that there is a change in the list is if a storm is so deadly or costly that the future use of its name on a different storm would be inappropriate for reasons of sensitivity. If that occurs, then at an annual meeting by the WMO committee (called primarily to discuss many other issues) the offending name is stricken from the list and another name is selected to replace it.

Several names have been changed since the lists were created. For example, on the 2007 list (which will be used again in 2013), Dorian has replaced Dean, Fernand has replaced Felix, and Nestor has replaced Noel. Here is more information about retired hurricane names.

In the event that more than 21 named tropical cyclones occur in the Atlantic basin in a season, additional storms will take names from the Greek alphabet: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and so on. If a storm forms in the off-season, it will take the next name in the list based on the current calendar date. For example, if a tropical cyclone formed on December 28th, it would take the name from the previous season's list of names. If a storm formed in February, it would be named from the subsequent season's list of names.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml

Additional info: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames_history.shtml