How tropical storms get their names 10 Articles

by Meg A Wright

Due to the fact tropical storms can last a week or even longer, more than one storm can be active at a time. This and the advances in technology in the forecasting department have furthered the necessity of keeping track ...read more

by Paul Lines

Why would you call a hurricane Andrew or Katrina? Does in not seem a little asinine to personalise the meteorological monsters that deliver such devastation and misery to the population in many areas of the world? Perhaps ...read more

by Eve Redstone

Tropical storms include typhoons, hurricanes and cyclones. The definition of each is the same but the type depends on the geographical area it is found in. Hurricanes form in the Atlantic, or the northeast pacific, typhoon...read more

by Brandi Carpo

Andrew, Charley, Katrina, Rita. How does a tropical storm, or hurricane get its name? The process of naming a tropical storm was developed to make it easy to identify and explain a particular system to those who may be af...read more

by Tammy L Mahan

Tropical storms and hurricanes have been named in some countries since the 1800's. Others started naming the storms in early 1930's but it wasn't until the mid 1950's that a "real" system was set in to motion by all the co...read more

by L. Beall

Names are given to tropical storms when they reach a wind speed of thirty-nine miles per hour because there can be more than one at a time it helps weather forecasters to differentiate between them. The National Hurricane ...read more

by Tenebris

All tropical storms begin as numbered, unnamed tropical depressions. Once the winds circling the tropical depression reach 39 mph (62 kph), the tropical depression becomes a tropical storm and is given a name. Until 195...read more

by S. F. Heron

During the years following Hurricane Andrew, there was a sharp decrease in the number of newborn children named Andrew. This phenomenon is called the baby names hurricane effect. It often causes new parents to choose nam...read more

by W D Adkins

Late in the spring each year storm systems begin to form in the Atlantic Ocean, drawing energy and moisture from the warm tropical waters. When they become powerful, we give them names. This custom has a long history. D...read more

by RahimAbdul

Storm is disturbance of the ordinary conditions of the atmosphere originated in the sea/ocean. The wind speed is a determining factor whether it is just a thunders storm, torrential rain or seasonal rain. A tropical storm ...read more