Because they didn't want to be sexist.
Hurricane names alternate between male and female names to avoid bias and promote fairness. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) assigns names to hurricanes based on a predetermined alphabetical list that alternates between genders. This practice helps make the naming process more equitable and reduces potential gender bias.
There is no difference at all. In years past all hurricanes were named after women. Some women took offense to that so the national weather service started to alternate between boys names and girls names so no one would be offended.
The names alternate; one storm is given a boy's name, the next a girl's name. They also alternate from year to year, if the first storm is going to receive a boy's or a girl name ( the first storm of 2012 was named Alberto, and the first storm of 2013 will be named Andrea).
That is the convention for naming hurricanes and cyclones. The names alternate boy-girl-boy-girl, using the next letter of the alphabet. Originally only female names were used, but this could be views as rather sexist.
Hurricane names are announced each year by World Meteorological Organization, alternating girls and boys names.
According to BabyNames.com, the most popular girls' names are: # Ava # Isabella # Madeline # Emma # Abigail This includes alternate spellings.
the way a typhoon or hurricane gets its name is by going through the alphabet and switching between girl and boy names. For example if one was named Alan then the next would be Bethany and then Carl and then Diana or something.
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every hurricane is named after an alternation of a boy or girl going in alphbetical order
They don't. Hurricane names alternate in gender, it just so happens that the 2 hurricanes to hit the U.S. east coast in recent years have had female names. In the past 20 years the following hurricanes have hit the U.S. East Coast:Andrew (1992)Danielle (1992)Erin (1995)Bertha (1996)Fran (1996)Bonnie (1998)Dennis (1999)Floyd (1999)Kyle (2002)Isabel (2003)Charley (2004)Frances (2004)Gaston (2004)Jeanne (2004)Katrina (2005)Irene (2011)Sandy (2012)This leaves 6 storms with male names and 11 with female names. The fact that most of the names are female is merely the product of random chance.
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