TexLil
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I was just thinking a little bit ago how the name Helene will be retired permanently. The devastation is profound.I always wondered why the deadly storms/hurricanes have feminine names?
Irma, Katrina, Helen ...
So I decided to check.
And...
For several decades, hurricanes were named only by female names.
In the late 1970s,
under the influence of feminist protests,
names began to be used alternately, female and male ones.
In order to avoid misunderstandings, to avoid giving two different names to the same cyclone by mistake, to avoid giving two phenomena the same name in a short period of time,
the list of names is established well in advance.
And so a list of names was created for each letter of the alphabet.
Then,
six sets were made of them,
each with 21 names,
which were arranged in alphabetical order.
One set is valid every year.
The same one will not be repeated until 6 years later.
Sometimes names are crossed out from the list.
This happens when a cyclone named after a given name has reaped an exceptionally bloody harvest.
In place of the crossed out name, at international meteorological conferences, another name is chosen.
It must start with the same letter and must be a female name (if a female name is crossed out), or a male name (if a male name is crossed out).
In 2005,
Hurricane Katrina devastated the US coast.
You will look in vain for this name on the list.
The same as Sandy, Mitch or Tracy.
Off topic maybe,
but I find it interesting.
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I remember the first male hurricane ever, “Hurricane Bob” in 1979.I always wondered why the deadly storms/hurricanes have feminine names?
Irma, Katrina, Helene ...
So I decided to check.
And...
For several decades, hurricanes were named only by female names.
In the late 1970s,
under the influence of feminist protests,
names began to be used alternately, female and male ones.
In order to avoid misunderstandings,
to avoid giving two different names to the same cyclone by mistake,
to avoid giving two phenomena the same name in a short period of time,
the list of names is established well in advance.
And so a list of names was created for each letter of the alphabet.
Then,
six sets were made of them,
each with 21 names,
which were arranged in alphabetical order.
One set is valid every year.
The same one will not be repeated until 6 years later.
Sometimes
names are crossed out from the list.
This happens when a cyclone named after a given name has reaped an exceptionally bloody harvest.
In place of the crossed out name,
at international meteorological conferences, another name is chosen.
It must start with the same letter
and must be a female name (if a female name is crossed out),
or a male name
(if a male name is crossed out).
In 2005,
Hurricane Katrina devastated the US coast.
You will look in vain for this name on the list.
The same as Sandy, Mitch or Tracy.
Off topic maybe,
but I find it interesting.