An international committee of the World Meteorological Organization maintains and keep updates of Hurricane Names lists. Before, in the early 1953, it was the National Hurricane Center that came up with some lists of names for Atlantic tropical storms.
Experience shows that the use of short, distinctive given Hurricane 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.
Such names serve more than fodder for pitting males and females against one another. Experience has shown that short, distinctive Hurricane Names are especially important in communicating detailed storm information in an efficient way, according to the National Hurricane Center.
Here are several Hurricane Names that is predicted on 2011 by NOAA:
Arlene
Bret
Cindy
Don
Emily
Franklin
Gert
Harvey
Irene
Jose
Katia
Lee
Maria
Nate
Ophelia
Philippe
Rina
Sean
Tammy
Vince
Whitney
The Hurricane Names lists are re-cycled every six years, i.e., the 2011 list will be used again in 2017. Several names have been changed since the Hurricane Names lists were created. 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 Hurricane Names.
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Hurricane Names
8/27/2011
News Staff
