Why did they start naming hurricanes?

Answer 1

Names have been given to Atlantic hurricanes for a few hundred years. People living in the Caribbean islands named storms after the saint of the day from the Roman Catholic liturgical calendar for the day on which the hurricane occurred such as "Hurricane San Felipe".

In 1978, meteorologists watching storms in the Eastern North Pacific began using men's names for half of the storms. Meteorologists for the Atlantic Ocean began using men's names in 1979. For each year, a list of 21 names, each starting with a different letter of the alphabet was developed and arranged in alphabetical order (names beginning with the letters Q, U, X, Y and Z were not used). The first tropical storm of the year was given the name beginning with the letter "A", the second with the letter "B" and so on through the alphabet. During even-numbered years, men's names were given to the odd-numbered storms and during odd-numbered years, women's names were given to odd-numbered storms (see the table above for recent name lists).

Today, the World Meteorological Organization maintains the lists of Atlantic hurricane names. They have six lists which are reused every six years.

Answer 2

Hurricanes get named in this process first a person spots a hurricane the person gets to name it , they do a pattern boy, girl ,boy, girl etc. which ever one is next is the one they choose, Next they go through the alphabet and which ever letter is next is what the name starts with.

Answer 3

Hurricanes are given names to help keep track of them more easily, especially when more than one storm is active at a time. Before naming it was not uncommon to confuse to separate storms.

Answer 4

Hurricanes were given names largely to avoid confusion when more than one storm was active at the same time and to distinguish between storms that hit the same areas.