Who Names Hurricanes?
Information about Who Names Hurricanes.
Every hurricane season when new hurricanes are approaching with
different names, a question we hear all the time is: Who names
hurricanes or who comes up with these hurricane names?
Actually, no one names hurricanes. Instead, tropical storms
are named by the National Hurricane Center located in Miami.
A tropical storm is defined as a tropical cyclone that has
winds of at least 40 miles per hour. If a tropical storm
has winds of at least 74 miles per hour, then it is called
a hurricane.
Thus, all tropical storms are named and then if
it graduates to a Hurricane, it will take the tropical
storm name it was born from.
There is a predermined list of alternating male and female
names for tropical storms for each season.
See the list
of Hurricane Names 2013 or
Hurricane Names 2014
Hurricane Names
Find hurricane names for future years here. List of hurricane names for the next 50 years.
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