Why typhoon names are named after women

This means that names in the last part of the list, such as those starting with V and W, appear only when many hurricanes are born in an year, so those names have seldom been used in history. On the other hand, the annual list is exhausted on the occurrence of more than 21 hurricanes, and Greek alphabets, alpha, beta, gamma, The hurricane was extraordinary active to see the first Greek-alphabet hurricane in record, and at this time the name has proceeded to Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon, and Zeta.

A representative example of "perpetual lists" is Asian Names of Typhoons next section. This convention does not split the list into the annual set of names, so the list is never exhausted. This also means that every name in the list will appear at least once. Note 2. Hence this area has more names compared to 21 names skipping 5 characters in the Atlantic basin.

The American-style convention has been applied on typhoon names in the Western North Pacific through In particular, during the American occupation of Japan through , female names of typhoons were officially used in Japan, so American female names are also well known for typhoons attacked just after the World War II.

This American-style convention had been used through Typhoon , and after that Japan Meteorological Agency started to use number conventions for domestic typhoon information. In Okinawa prefecture, however, American occupation has continued until , and American-style convention had been in use during that period.

Those male and female names have advantage, especially in the United States, to increase familiarity to hurricanes and help people remember the experiences of severe hurricanes. Those American names, however, were relatively unknown to Japanese and Asian people, and this is the motivation of establishing another list of typhoon names called Asian names , which has been in effect since Japan Meteorological Agency, for example, proposed names after constellations.

Asian names are sorted according to the alphabetical name of countries, so typhoon names themselves are not arranged in an alphabetical order. Asian names go worldwide as they are, and soon became popular in countries where list-based conventions has already gained popularity, but in Japan, where typhoon numbers have been used for tens of years, typhoon Asian names are still far from popular.

But typhoon Asian names are more and more often noticed by people, especially by Internet users, so we can say that its popularity is gradually increasing. To know the meaning of the Asian name of recent typhoons, please refer to Digital Typhoon: News Weblog. The same naming convention has been used in Indian Ocean since India Meteorological Department is in charge of naming cyclones, names were suggested by Bangladesh, India, the Maldives, Myanmar, Oman, Pakistan, Thailand and Sri Lanka, and names are used in the order of alphabetical order of country names.

A new Asian name is not assigned, and the hurricane name is kept as the name of the tropical cyclone. This causes a shift of correspondence between Asian names and typhoon numbers. In recent years, Typhoon and Typhoon has changed from a hurricane to a typhoon. Therefore, typhoons had been recorded in the first round of Asian names in spite of Asian names registered in the list. The hurricane name is usually a name in the central Pacific basin W - W , but in a rare case, a name in the eastern Pacific basin east of W.

The use of easily remembered names greatly reduces confusion when two or more tropical storms occur at the same time. For example, one hurricane can be moving slowly westward in the Gulf of Mexico, while at exactly the same time another hurricane can be moving rapidly northward along the Atlantic coast.

In the past, confusion and false rumors have arisen when storm advisories broadcast from radio stations were mistaken for warnings concerning an entirely different storm located hundreds of miles away. For several hundred years many hurricanes in the West Indies were named after the particular saint's day on which the hurricane occurred.

Ivan R. Tannehill describes in his book "Hurricanes" the major tropical storms of recorded history and mentions many hurricanes named after saints. Tannehill also tells of Clement Wragge, an Australian meteorologist who began giving women's names to tropical storms before the end of the 19th century. The only difference between a cyclone, hurricane and typhoon is the location where they occur. Are any names excluded? Due to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in , the name has been permanently retired from being used to name another North Atlantic Hurricane.

Can I get cyclone named after me? October 27, Posted by Lucy Reiger. Eliza Kelly says:. October 27, at pm. That has only happened once before, With another active season expected , possibly making it through the list of names, it brings up some questions.

When did tropical cyclones start being named and what is the history as to why and how these names are chosen? Dating back hundreds of years, hurricanes were named after Saints.

Initially, only female names were used. I am sure you're wondering why. The most plausible reason is mariners traditionally referred to the ocean and their vessels as women.