FAQs about Hurricanes
12. How are the names of the hurricanes chosen?
At the beginning of the 19th century hurricanes were named according to the saints’ day, the day when the hurricane manifested its greatest devastation. At the end of the 19th century, the Australian meteorologist Clement Wragge baptized for the first time one of these storms with a female name, although retaining only biblical names. In 1953, in the United States they decided to choose any name, but always as a woman. In 1979, the World Meteorological Organization and the Meteorological Service of the United States, to avoid problems with feminists, decided to alternate female and male names and thus ended the sexist polemic. Since then every year a list is prepared, which is repeated every 6 years, in alphabetical order, starting again with the “A” every year. So, we could have: Alex, Betty, Charles, Daniella, Eduard, etc. Finally, there is an agreement to exclude the names of catastrophic cyclones, which have caused great mortality and devastation.
FAQs about Hurricanes
1. What are tropical cyclones?
2. What is a tropical depression?
3. What is a tropical storm?
4. What is a hurricane?
5. How do hurricanes form?
6. Is there any relationship between global warming and hurricanes?
7. What is the difference between a hurricane and a typhoon?
8. What changes in hurricane activity are expected by the end of the 21st century?
9. How are hurricanes measured?
10. What is the Saffir-Simpson scale?
11. What are the five categories of hurricane intensity?
12. How are the names of the hurricanes chosen?
13. What have been the most devastating hurricanes?
14. What is the origin of the word “hurricane”?
15. What is the first story of a hurricane?
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