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Today, meteorologists use the system of alternating male and female storms, starting with A and moving down the alphabet. This was first used for Pacific storms in 1978 and for Atlantic storms in ...
Later, in 1978, male and female names were both used for hurricanes in the Eastern North Pacific storm lists, and later for lists for the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. These lists can be found on ...
How do hurricanes like Idalia, which has made landfall in Florida, get their names? Hurricane expert Brian McNoldy explains why and gives list of 2023 hurricane names.
Ahead of the 2000–01 season, it was decided to start using male names, as well as female names for tropical cyclones developing in the South-West Indian Ocean. [60] During September 2001, RSMC La Réunion proposed that the basin adopt a single circular list of names and that a tropical cyclone have only one name during its lifetime. [61]
The name selected comes from one of six rotating alphabetic lists of twenty-one names, that are maintained by the World Meteorological Organization's (WMO) RA IV Hurricane Committee. [1] These lists skip the letters Q, U, X, Y and Z, rotate from year to year and alternate between male and female names. [1]
Starting in 1979, the WMO began assigning both male and female names to tropical cyclones. [2] This decade featured hurricanes David and Frederic, the first male Atlantic hurricane names to be retired. During this decade, 9 storms were deemed significant enough to have their names retired.
Before that, storms mostly got names retrospectively, and they could vary — like the 1900 Galveston Hurricane, the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane, or the Great New England Hurricane of 1938. At first, forecasters only named hurricanes for women, but by 1979 male names were also being used.
Here is the complete list of hurricane names for 2024, with the bolded names representing storms that have already taken place this year. Alberto. Beryl. Chris. Debby. Ernesto. Francine. Gordon ...