Names for Hurricanes

[clare]

who decides?

[Guest BootleBoy]

who decides?

 

It's done in alphabetical order but gawd knows who decides!

[Gav]

who decides?

 

Usually whichever bird has chewed out whatever scientest guy who finds the hurricane

[DT]

How the fuck did they get from Katrina to Rita in 2 weeks??

[05 Milan]

How the fuck did they get from Katrina to Rita in 2 weeks??

 

hurricanes Larry, Moe, Nobby, Otis, Peter and Quaker were all overlooked by the tabloids

[Gav]

How the fuck did they get from Katrina to Rita in 2 weeks??

 

They are birds names ,and where birds are concerned , when do they ever make sense ??????

[Bob]

the names change letter and sex each time. Whenever a hurricane is formed it is given a name. As hurricanes form over sea, often they do not ever make it to land before they are disrupted and break up, therefore algthough they have been named officially, we will not have heard about it.

 

you might notice, as i just have that if they changed sex each time, it should be a male beginning with R, but i imagine that 'O' is ignored as both 'I' and 'O' are not usually used in science as references, due to the possibility of confusion with numbers 1 and 0. This however is a guess.

[DT]

Maybe it's the Q that's been left out?

[Bob]

Maybe it's the Q that's been left out?

 

perhaps, but if the O was left out, then the Q would be male, and could be called Quentin.

[Dermot]

The Q, has been left out, as is U, X, Y and Z. Below is the full 6 year list that tropical storms/hurricanes are named from:

 

Arthur

Bertha

Cristobal

Dolly

Edouard

Fay

Gustav

Hanna

Isidore

Josephine

Kyle

Lili

Marco

Nana

Omar

Paloma

Rene

Sally

Teddy

Vicky

Wilfred Ana

Bill

Claudette

Danny

Erika

Fabian

Grace

Henri

Isabel

Juan

Kate

Larry

Mindy

Nicholas

Odette

Peter

Rose

Sam

Teresa

Victor

Wanda Alex

Bonnie

Charley

Danielle

Earl

Frances

Gaston

Hermine

Ivan

Jeanne

Karl

Lisa

Matthew

Nicole

Otto

Paula

Richard

Shary

Tomas

Virginie

Walter Arlene

Bret

Cindy

Dennis

Emily

Franklin

Gert

Harvey

Irene

Jose

 

Katrina

 

Lee

Maria

Nate

Ophelia

Philippe

 

Rita

 

Stan

Tammy

Vince

Wilma Alberto

Beryl

Chris

Debby

Ernesto

Florence

Gordon

Helene

Isaac

Joyce

Kirk

Leslie

Michael

Nadine

Oscar

Patty

Rafael

Sandy

Tony

Valerie

William Andrea

Barry

Chantal

Dean

Erin

Felix

Gabrielle

Humberto

Ingrid

Jerry

Karen

Lorenzo

Melissa

Noel

Olga

Pablo

Rebekah

Sebastien

Tanya

Van

Wendy

[Dave H]

who decides?

 

Husbands / boyfriends.....any bloke who loses his house...

[Anubis]

They are birds names ,and where birds are concerned , when do they ever make sense ??????

 

Are they neamed after women because they go from calm to angry in no time at all, constantly change direction to confuse you, and smash things up?

[clare]

Husbands / boyfriends.....any bloke who loses his house...

 

There's no hurricane on Dermot's list called "Women Who Wise Up and Take No More Shit from Lying Male Gits!" Dave H luv ;)

[Dave H]

There's no hurricane on Dermot's list called "Women Who Wise Up and Take No More Shit from Lying Male Gits!" Dave H luv ;)

 

Hmmmmmm :$ isnt that the one that's on the way now??

[clare]

Hmmmmmm :$ isnt that the one that's on the way now??

 

Only for naughty boys Dave ;)

[Gav]

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Hi Everybody

 

 

[Gav]

Are they neamed after women because they go from calm to angry in no time at all, constantly change direction to confuse you, and smash things up?

 

something like that , plus the fact that all you get is one good blow job ,then they fuck off with yer house

[Dermot]

and I thought that I was just answering the question.

[Stu Monty]

If you want to see a clip of some old Hurricanes that were pretty awesome and did some hilariously devastating damage then follow this lnk:

 

You won't be dissapointed:

 

http://www.dicentertainment.com/shows/index.php?show=31&category=ActionComedyEuro%20Content

[Gav]

and I thought that I was just answering the question.

 

 

 

and what a answer ;)

[Dermot]

Best thing is that it isn't my answer, I asked a mate of mine who monitors storms for the MET office a similar question to that at the start of the thread about a week ago and he emailed me an answer, I borrowed from it for the above answer, only included the full list as I thought that some of the names were unusual, and I was amazed at the length of the list, ie how well prepared they were.

[Gav]

nahh, best thing is that due to my psychic abilities I managed to find a photograph of yer mat on nerd.com :D

[CROUCH]

I found out that before 1978 hurricanes were given only women's names but some women complained that that was sexist so now they alternate. Also that:

 

"Six lists are now used in rotation, and are maintained by the World Meteorological Organization. The list changes only when a storm is so deadly that it is deemed inappropriate for the name to be used again. Any country affected by such a storm can ask that the storm name be retired. For example, this year's list of names was first used in 1986, though in that year the first storm was Andrew. After Hurricane Andrew devastated South Florida in 1992, it was retired."

 

http://sptimes.com/2004/06/06/Hurricaneguide2004/Hurricanes_moved_from.shtml

[redrosetints]

who decides?

 

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

 

Has all you need to know.

 

But each season they start from a and go through the alphabet. Hurricanes themselves dont get named, but the tropical depression, the first signs of a weather front gets named, then that depression may or may not become upgraded to a tropical storm and after that to a hurricane, of which there are 5 categories.

 

Anyway, a right riveting read ! O_o