| Naming History Of Hurricanes
The naming of hurricanes has extensive and attractive records. For scores of centuries, the name of hurricanes in the West Indies was mentioned after specific Catholic saint's days on which they took place. |
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For instance, a hurricane named "San Felipe" hit Puerto Rico in 1876. When the next hurricane hit the same place, that is, Puerto Rico on the same day after more than fifty years, it was baptized as "San Felipe the second."
Soon after that, latitude-longitude locations were utilized, but this technique soon proved to be awkward.
Thereafter, military weather predictors started conferring women's names for major storms during World War II. Subsequently, in 1950 the WMO decided to follow an alphabetical naming arrangement, making use of the military's radio code. The first name was Atlantic hurricane was Able in 1950.
In 1951, the United States took on a perplexing arrangement to name storms by a phonetic alphabet such as Able, Baker, and Charlie.
In a little while, administrators recognized that this naming rule would lead to troubles in the records if more than one influential Hurricane Able caused landfall. Hence, in 1953, the association took on a revolving sequence of women's names with an intention of retiring names of major storms.
The exercise of using female names completely finished in 1978 when names from both genders were employed to delegate storms in the eastern Pacific. After a year, even the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico incorporated lists of male and female names. The name lists include a French, Spanish, Dutch, and English essence because hurricanes influence other countries and their climate services as well.
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Naming History Of Hurricanes
The naming of Atlantic Hurricanes has constantly been a topic of concern for its personnel. Atlantic has experienced a number of critical and vicious hurricanes with a total of $12 billion damages and more than 100 deaths. 
