Why do the hurricanes have names
Since 1953, the
National Hurricane Center (USA) has been giving names to the major tropical cyclone storms (commonly known as the hurricanes).
As using names is much more natural for us, people, than using the latitude/longitude coordinates, the information exchange among the meteorologists, public and media is much easier than before.
First the hurricanes only were given womenīs names but in 1973 also the menīs names were added to the list (for U.S., there are totally 6 lists repeating each 6 yers, each hurricane name starts with different letter - in alphabetical order - a...
