U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE , NOAA, National Weather Service Experience shows that the use of short, distintive given names in written as well as spoken communications is quicker and less subject to error than the older more cumbersome latitude-longitute identification methods. These advantages are specially important in exchanging detailed storm information between hundres widely scattered stations, coastal bases, and ships at sea. The use of easily remembered names greatly reduces confusion when two or more tropical storms occur at the same time. For example, one hurricane can be moving slowly westward in the Gulf of Mexico , while at exactly the same time anothe hurricane can be moving rapidly Northward along the Atlantic coast. In the past, confusion and false rumors have arisen when storm advisories broadcast from radio statio were mistaken for warning concerning an entirely different storm located hundreds of miles away. History of Hurricane Names For several hundred years many hurricanes in the West Indies were named after the particular saint's day on which the hurricane occurred. Ivan R. Tannehill describes in his book "Hurricanes" the major tropical storms of recorded history and mentions many hurricanes named after saints. For example, there was "Hurricane Santa Ana" which struck Puerto Rico with exceptional violence on July 26, 1825, and "San Felipe" (the first) and "San Felipe" (the second) which hit Puerto Rico on September 13 in both 1876 and 1928. Tannehill also tells of Clement Wragge, an Australian meteorologist who began giving women's names to tropical storms before the end of the l9th century. An early example of the use of a woman's name for a storm was in the novel "Storm" by George R . Stewart, published by Random House in 1941, and since filmed by Walt Disney. During World War II this practice became widespread in weather map discussions among forecasters, especially Air Force and Navy meteorologists who plotted the movements of storms over the wide expanses of the Pacific Ocean. In 1953, the United States abandoned as confusing a two-year old plan to name storms by a phonetic alphabet (Able, Baker, Charlie) when a new, international phonetic alphabet was introduced. That year, this Nation's weather services began using female names for storms. The practice of naming hurricanes solely after women came to an end in 1978 when men's and women's names were included in the Eastern North Pacific storm lists. In 1979, male and female names were included in lists for the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico.
Cyclones have names for various reasons which is mainly to facilitate communication. The culture of giving cyclone names started in 1945 and has been extended over the years which facilitates the description of a particular cyclone.
One reason is to tell them apart. They could be represented by letters, or numbers, but names are much easier to remember. Naming cyclones originated with an Australian weather forecaster in the early 20th century who named cyclones after political figures he did not like. It enabled the forecaster to describe a politician whom he disliked in terms such as "causing great distress" or "wandering aimlessly about the Pacific". This was changed to women's names during World War II, when tropical cyclones and hurricanes were named by US Army Air Corp and Navy meteorologists, usually after their girlfriends or wives, while they were monitoring cyclones over the Pacific.
Can't find a specific reason why. They started using female names in 1953 and went to male and female names in 1979 in the Atlantic hurricane season.
This link has just a little more information.
Because people have a tradition. It started when Isis, the Egyptian goddess of magic, named her son Horus. Horus decided that female humans were special. So the Indian people heard his calls. They deciphered his code and passed the message to the people who named the cyclones. It is quite a tale.
You must be missing alternate cyclones. The list of names for each year alternates
between male and female names.
Because they wreck up your house just like an ex-wife
they chose names that they think suites the tropical cyclones based on something else. For example, if the cyclone was ugly and you had an ugly doll whose name was Penny, they name the cyclone Penny.
No, cyclones are meteorological.
Many countries get cyclones, for example, the United States, Portugal, Brazil, and Australia are a few countries who get cyclones.
Typhoon is a name given to tropical cyclones in North Pacific Ocean. Typhoon builds up as a result of low pressure and high winds. The path of the typhoon is the direction it travel and the path it takes while causing destruction.
There has never been a tornado name Sheila as tornadoes are not given names like hurricanes are. The name Sheila is included on the list of tropical cyclones (generic for hurricanes, typhoons, etc.) in the area of Fiji and was used once, but the storm only reached equivalent to tropical storm intensity.
Cyclones are named alphabetically. Originally they were given female names, but now they can be given either male or female names. Cyclones (and hurricanes) are given a random name beginning with whatever letter the meteorologists (who first detect it) are up to, provided the name has not been used previously.Cyclones also tend to take on a name common to the region where they form. For example, in February 2011, Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi has a Fijian name because it developed in Fijian waters. The cyclone started as a tropical low near Fiji, and when it was upgraded to a cyclone, it was given a Fijian name by the Fiji Meteorological Service.
A female pig is called a "Sow".
doe
a female given name
my name is cycilonia and my specialty is cyclones i have a big willy wonka
The Iowa State Cyclones got the name "Cyclones" when the took out Northwestern 37 to 0. The next day the headline said "Northwestern taken out by a Cyclone". That's when Iowa State decided that Cyclones would be a fitting name for them.
Female goats are known as Doe's.
There is no specific name given to a female echidna. It is just a female echidna.
As a given name it is a woman's name.
Heifer calf.
Hare
A female given name.