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Jun 2, 2023 · U.S. How do hurricanes get their names? A look at the naming process and 2023's full list of storms. By Caitlin O'Kane. Updated on: August 28, 2023 / 12:15 PM EDT / CBS News. The first day of...
Retired Hurricane Names Since 1954. The NHC does not control the naming of tropical storms. Instead a strict procedure has been established by an international committee of the World Meteorological Organization . For Atlantic hurricanes, there is a list of names for each of six years .
May 1, 2024 · Alberto, Beryl and Chris lead off the list of storm names for the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, which officially gets underway June 1. A tropical storm gets a name when its sustained winds reach ...
The name selected comes from one of six rotating alphabetic lists of twenty-one names, that are maintained by the World Meteorological Organization's (WMO) RA IV Hurricane Committee. These lists skip the letters Q, U, X, Y and Z, rotate from year to year and alternate between male and female names. [1]
May 3, 2022 · Atlantic hurricanes are named according to six rotating alphabetical lists maintained by the World Meteorological Organization. This year’s 21-name list is as follows: Alex, Bonnie, Colin,...
Sep 8, 2023 · Why Tropical Cyclones Are Named. Experience shows that the use of short, distinctive, given names in written and spoken communications is quicker and less subject to error than the older, more cumbersome latitude-longitude identification methods.
Feb 28, 2023 · National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The National Weather Service released the storm names for the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season, which started June 1 and runs through Nov. 30....
