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Tropical cyclones are named for historical reasons and so as to avoid confusion when communicating with the public, as more than one tropical cyclone can exist at a time. Names are drawn in order from predetermined lists. They are usually assigned to tropical cyclones with one-, three-, or ten-minute windspeeds of at least 65 km/h (40 mph).
Before the formal start of naming, tropical cyclones were often named after places, objects, or saints' feast days on which they occurred. The credit for the first usage of personal names for weather systems is generally given to the Queensland Government meteorologist Clement Wragge, who named systems between 1887 and 1907.
August 23, 1863: A Category 1 hurricane hit Nova Scotia just before losing tropical characteristics. September 23–24, 1866: A hurricane hit Newfoundland after weakening from a Category 2 hurricane. October 5, 1869: The 1869 Saxby Gale struck Canada's Bay of Fundy region damaging parts of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, killing 37 people offshore.
Some of these names include Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, Sandy in 2012, Katrina in 2005 and more. When is hurricane season? Hurricane season runs from June 1 until Nov. 30, according to the ...
The practice of using names to identify tropical cyclones goes back several centuries, with storms named after places, saints or things they hit before the formal start of naming in each basin. Examples of such names are the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane (also known as the "San Felipe II" hurricane) and the 1938 New England hurricane .
Tropical cyclones are named to avoid confusion with the public and streamline communications, as more than one tropical cyclone can exist at a time. Names are drawn in order from predetermined lists, [1] and are usually assigned to tropical cyclones with one-, three- or ten-minute windspeeds of more than 65 km/h (40 mph). However, standards ...
1963 – was downgraded after the fact; it never warranted a name. 1964 – affected Madagascar. 1965† – a weak east Pacific tropical cyclone that caused heavy damage in Mexico. 1979 – a powerful tropical cyclone caused $41 million in damage, among the costliest Western Australian cyclones.
1996 – hit Japan caused heavy flooding, resulting in at least 2 deaths and moderate damage. 2000 – the strongest tropical cyclone in the western Pacific during 2000 and wrought considerable damage in Taiwan and China in August of that year. 2001 – one of the deadliest tropical cyclones to hit the island country of Taiwan, since 1961.