Katrina, Sandy, Andrew – Some names are not counted involved with some of the most destructive storms in the new US history. But how can hurricanes and other tropical storms get their names?
First, let’s start how such storms mean. Tropical stormy storms with continuous air more than 74 mph (119 km / h) developing east of the international line of date. They are referred to as storm West of the international date line, and called them sea storms in India and Australia. Everyone is engaged and named by a body, the world meteorological organization (WMO), with Name list for storms.
To get a name, a storm should keep air at least 39 mph (63 km / h) for a minute period. If it fails to do, it will receive a number instead of a name and is called a tropical depression.
WMO also keeps A List of 21 storm names that it rotates every six years. Atlantic storms list for 2025, for example, Andrea and Barry is specified next line, the same storms during the Atlantic names in the names, as Lourdes Aviliz, Associate Provost in Plymouth State University and Author “Taken in the storm, 1938: a history of social and meteorological in New England Hurricane” a book (American Meteorological Society, 2013) about Hurricane history.
If there are more than 21 storms in a storm in a storm, there is a backup list, wmo, eptal, eptalo, eptali, eptalon), but wmo replaced with another list of Additional Name.
If a storm is more harmful, like Hurricane Katrina or Fiona, the country where the storm makes landfall ask that WMO retires the name. The organization then voted a new to replace it, picking a name that began the same letter of the alphabet. So, although your name is not visible on the list, there is a chance of an incoming vote on WMO, your name can end it.
Your name is more relevant to a famous storm or storm when it starts with a letter between G and R, June lines, if tropical conditions.
For example, Hurricane Ian went out as a tropical waves in the Caribbean on Sept. 23, 2022, before it became tropical distances under 39 mph (63 km / h). If it reaches the air of 45 mph (72 km / h), it gets the name Tropical Storm Ian, which has become Ninth Storm in 2022 season of the Atlantic storm. Then, this Stormed a storm on September 26, 2022Achieving Category 4 before fitting Florida and South Carolina days later. The US asks WMO to retire on the name Ian, to replace it with Idris, which is now visible to list.
History of storm names
A tall, stammering meteorologist arrived in the 19th century of the 19th century lecture hall of his papers around him. His name is Clement Wragge, even if his companions ever call him “Cleaning. “
In the 19th century, Spanish sailors were named after the Saints, according to Hurricane historian Ivan R. Tannehhill. Hurricane San Philip hit the country in 1876, but another storm of the same name appeared in 1928. The Spaniards also had a tropical storms when two tropical storms occurred the same day, however.
The wragge has a solution to this problem: he will refer to the storms of northern storms that he does not like, making fun of the officers “or” walking around the end of the Pacific.
“It is a convention we need to think about being taken,” Kerry Emanuel, a meteorology of MIT and Author “Holy Wind: History and Science of Hurricanes (Singford University Press, 2005).
For southern storms, Wragge began to naming them after numbers from Greek and Roman myths. But when he ran, he continued to named them after the Pacific Island girls who got his eyes. He is now credited as the first meteorologist to start the storms of naming women, according to Tannehill.
During the Second World War, US pilots choose wraggage naming habits. The Air Force began to named the tropical cyclones after their grandmothers, spouses and girlfriends. “There is, like, many storms called Carol and things like that,” says Avilés. “(It is used) in two ways to honor and sexist against women.”
Later, scientists are concerned that storms leading storms per deadly result. A 2014 study though proposed The public saw the storms that are habitual names of the man who is more dangerous – which leads to care – leading storms with many people in general.
However study is widespread Denounced Due to an important error: Storms only began to receive man’s names in 1979, but 2014 study was 60 years of storm data. .
What else, did the storms do not die for many years, especially thankful to the satellites that allow us to predict the storms.
“It’s a good and bad success story,” Emanuel said. “Before the satellite period, you can have storms in the Open Sea with no one who sees or measures. They have just tried the trails of stormy storms.”
