Why all hurricane names are female?
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No.. they start out as female and when exhausted they turn to male names..\n\nHurricane Andrew..\n\n\nNaming schemes\nFurther information: List of notable tropical cyclones \nThe WMO's Regional Association IV Hurricane Committee selects the names for Atlantic Basin and central and eastern Pacific storms.\n\nIn the Atlantic and Eastern North Pacific regions, feminine and masculine names are assigned alternately in alphabetic order during a given season. The "gender" of the season's first storm also alternates year to year: the first storm of an odd-numbered year gets feminine name, while the first storm of an even-numbered year gets a masculine name. Six lists of names are prepared in advance, and each list is used once every six years. Five letters — "Q," "U," "X," "Y" and "Z" — are omitted in the Atlantic; only "Q" and "U" are omitted in the Eastern Pacific, so the format accommodates 21 or 24 named storms in a hurricane season. Names of storms may be retired by request of affected countries if they have caused extensive damage. The affected countries then decide on a replacement name of the same gender, and if possible, the same ethnicity, as the name being retired.\n\nIf there are more than 21 named storms in an Atlantic season or 24 named storms in an Eastern Pacific season, the rest are named as letters from the Greek alphabet: the twenty-second storm is called "Alpha," the twenty-third "Beta," and so on. This was first necessary during the 2005 season when the list was exhausted. There is no precedent for a storm named with a Greek Letter causing enough damage to justify retirement; how this situation would be handled is unknown.\n\nIn the Central North Pacific region, the name lists are maintained by the Central Pacific Hurricane Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. Four lists of Hawaiian names are selected and used in sequential order without regard to year.\n\nIn the Western North Pacific, name lists are maintained by the WMO Typhoon Committee. Five lists of names are used, with each of the 14 nations on the Typhoon Committee submitting two names to each list. Names are used in the order of the countries' English names, sequentially without regard to year. Since 1981, the numbering system had been the primary system to identify tropical cyclone among Typhoon Committee members and it is still in use. International numbers are assigned by Japan Meteorological Agency on the order that a tropical storm forms while different internal numbers may be assigned by different NMCs. The Typhoon "Songda" in September 2004 was internally called the typhoon number 18 in Japan but typhoon number 19 in China. Internationally, it is recorded as the TY Sonda (0418) with "04" taken from the year.\n\nThe Australian Bureau of Meteorology maintains three lists of names, one for each of the Western, Northern and Eastern Australian regions. There are also Fiji region and Papua New Guinea region names.\n\nThe Seychelles Meteorological Service maintains a list for the Southwest Indian Ocean. There, a new list is used each year.\n\n[edit]\nRenaming of tropical cyclones\nIn most cases, a tropical cyclone retains its name throughout its life. However, a tropical cyclone may be renamed in several occasions.\n\nA tropical storm enters the southwestern Indian Ocean from the east \nIn the southwestern Indian Ocean, Metéo France in Réunion names a tropical storm once it crosses 90°E from the east, even though it has been named. In this case, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) will put two names together with a hyphen. Examples include Cyclone Adeline-Juliet in early 2005 and Cyclone Bertie-Alvin in late 2005. \nA tropical storm crosses from the Atlantic into the Pacific, or vice versa, before 2001 \nIt was the policy of National Hurricane Center (NHC) to rename a tropical storm which crossed from Atlantic into Pacific,
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The terms "hurricane" and "typhoon" are regionally specific names for a strong "tropical cyclone". A tropical cyclone is the generic term for a non-frontal synoptic scale low-pressure system over tropical or sub-tropical waters with organized convection (i.e. thunderstorm activity) and definite cyclonic surface wind circulation (Holland 1993). \n\nTropical cyclones with maximum sustained surface winds of less than 17 m/s (34 kt, 39 mph) are called "tropical depressions" (This is not to be confused with the condition mid-latitude people get during a long, cold and grey winter wishing they could be closer to the equator ;-)). Once the tropical cyclone reaches winds of at least 17 m/s (34 kt, 39 mph) they are typically called a "tropical storm" and assigned a name. If winds reach 33 m/s (64 kt, 74 mph)), then they are called: \n\n"hurricane" (the North Atlantic Ocean, the Northeast Pacific Ocean east of the dateline, or the South Pacific Ocean east of 160E) \n"typhoon" (the Northwest Pacific Ocean west of the dateline) \n"severe tropical cyclone" (the Southwest Pacific Ocean west of 160E or Southeast Indian Ocean east of 90E) \n"severe cyclonic storm" (the North Indian Ocean) \n"tropical cyclone" (the Southwest Indian Ocean)
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Hurricane is affected by local conditions and it's diffiult to predict the path. However, we can see what has been typically the result based on various conditions of both the current and past similar hurricanes, and try to use that information to make an educated guess. With computer technology advancing, we have more information to fine tune the guesses and make them more accurate. But we'll never be able to 100% predict the weather or people's reaction to it.
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Actually, cyclones ARE another name for hurricanes - I post this directly, not changing the context one bit.\n\nIn meteorology, a cyclone is the rotation of a volume of air about an area of low atmospheric pressure. Cyclones are responsible for a wide variety of different meteorological phenomena such as tropical cyclones and tornadoes. Because of this, most weather forecasters avoid using the term cyclone without a qualifying term.\n\nTropical cyclones (also known as tropical storms, hurricanes and typhoons) are cyclones which form over warm (generally tropical) ocean waters and draw their energy from evaporation and condensation. They are characterized by a strong area of low pressure at the surface and an area of higher pressure aloft. Tropical cyclones are associated with strong thunderstorms, high winds, and flooding.\n\nIn North America, tornadoes are sometimes described as cyclones because they involve powerful winds around a low-pressure vortex. However, they differ from other cyclones by their very local nature; most cyclones are massive storms, while tornados are comparatively small but extremely powerful. Tornadoes occur on too local a scale for the Coriolis effect to determine the direction of rotation; for this reason tornado winds sometimes flow anticyclonically, or opposite the direction dictated by the Coriolis effect.
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No they don't. They alternate between male & female names.\nRemember Hurricane Bill?\n\nNorth Atlantic Ocean storms are named by the U.S. National Hurricane Center from the following lists. There have been six lists of names in use since 1979. The lists make use of names from both sexes. They are in alphabetical order and lists are recycled after six years, with List IV in use for the 2006 season. For retired names, see List of retired Atlantic hurricanes. All letters of the alphabet are used except Q, U, X, Y and Z.\n\nGender alternates both between adjacent names in a list (a male name is followed by a female one and vice versa) and between initial names between lists (if one year's list starts with a female name, the next year's list begins with a male one and vice versa).\n\nIf the names on a list are all used, storms are then named after the letters of the Greek alphabet (Alpha, Beta, Gamma, etc.) The use of 21 names was established in reference to the 1933 Atlantic hurricane season which had been the record holder for the most storms in the region. This record was broken during the 2005 season, which saw 28 storms (27 named and one unnamed), and saw the first use of the Greek alphabet to name storms.\n\n\nList I\n(2009)     List II\n(2010)     List III\n(2011)     List IV\n(2006)     List V\n(2007)     List VI\n(2008) \n• Ana\n• Bill\n• Claudette\n• Danny\n• Erika\n• Fred\n• Grace\n• Henri\n• Ida\n• Joaquin\n• Kate\n• Larry\n• Mindy\n• Nicholas\n• Odette\n• Peter\n• Rose\n• Sam\n• Teresa\n• Victor\n• Wanda  • Alex\n• Bonnie\n• Colin\n• Danielle\n• Earl\n• Fiona\n• Gaston\n• Hermine\n• Igor\n• Julia\n• Karl\n• Lisa\n• Matthew\n• Nicole\n• Otto\n• Paula\n• Richard\n• Shary\n• Tomas\n• Virginie\n• Walter  • Arlene\n• Bret\n• Cindy\n• Don\n• Emily\n• Franklin\n• Gert\n• Harvey\n• Irene\n• Jose\n• Katia\n• Lee\n• Maria\n• Nate\n• Ophelia\n• Philippe\n• Rina\n• Sean\n• Tammy\n• Vince\n• Whitney  • Alberto\n• Beryl\n• Chris\n• Debby\n• Ernesto\n• Florence\n• Gordon\n• Helene\n• Isaac\n• Joyce\n• Kirk\n• Leslie\n• Michael\n• Nadine\n• Oscar\n• Patty\n• Rafael\n• Sandy\n• Tony\n• Valerie\n• William  • Andrea\n• Barry\n• Chantal\n• Dean\n• Erin\n• Felix\n• Gabrielle\n• Humberto\n• Ingrid\n• Jerry\n• Karen\n• Lorenzo\n• Melissa\n• Noel\n• Olga\n• Pablo\n• Rebekah\n• Sebastien\n• Tanya\n• Van\n• Wendy  • Arthur\n• Bertha\n• Cristobal\n• Dolly\n• Edouard\n• Fay\n• Gustav\n• Hanna\n• Ike\n• Josephine\n• Kyle\n• Laura\n• Marco\n• Nana\n• Omar\n• Paloma\n• Rene\n• Sally\n• Teddy\n• Vicky\n• Wilfred
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whal.. er, I mean hurricanes
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Other options were tried but Names worked best.\nThey were called by the city they hit and the date.\nThat got confusing where the same city would be hit multiple times and perhaps in the same season.\n\nThey used to be storm numbers and letters ... storm A, B, C, They retired them when a big storm hit.\nAfter a while they started running out of combinations So memorable mens names were used.\nThen to accomodate the non male community... Man and female names were alternated.
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There is no difference. A hurricane is just called different things in different parts of the world.
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As much as I hate to contradict others, the East and West explanation is inaccurate. Hurricanes are in the Northern Hemisphere, while cyclones and typhoons are in the Southern Hemisphere. Another difference, which is caused by their location, is the direction in which they spin. The rotation of  the Earth causes hurricanes to spin counterclockwise, while cyclones go clockwise.
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It's the same name. No difference in the name, just the gender.
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In 2005, after Katrina there were several named storms that did not impact the US but still developed.  Rita did hit the TX/LA border in September.  The storms did happen.  Because of mainstream media coverage you likely didn't hear about them.\n\nHurricane names are created by the World Meteorological Organization, and are rotated every 6 years.  For example, the list of storms for this season (Alberto, Beryl, Chris, Debby, etc.) was last used in 2000, and will be used again in 2012.\n\nOnly 21 of the 26 available names are used in a typical season.  Because the letters Q, U, X, Y and Z have so few names that can be used, they are skipped in the list.\n\nOn occaision, a name can be retired if the hurricane was especially destructive or otherwise noteworthy.  For example, there will never be another Hurricane Andrew or Hurricane Katrina.  \n\n2005 was especially confusing because once the original 21 names were used (this had never happened before), they utilized the letters of the greek alphabet to name the other 6 storms that occured.  Alpha, Beta and Gamma were the first 3, Zeta was the last.  So the alphabet seemed to jump around, but this was an extreemly rare occurance.
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It has a lot to do with the differences between the two genders. Females can get a guy very easily and sex almost at anytime they wish. Consider this natural, because of this girls are picky. For the males, it is opposite by nature, guys must be accepted by females which means males must be a certain size, good hair and now a days wealthy before he can be accepted by a female counterpart. This makes it difficult to get sex for the males.\nTherefore since it is easy for females to get "hooked" up, liking sex too often goes against their picky nature and is considered disobedient or mischievous which is described by names such as Hoes or slut. Because of the challenges of males being accepted by females, those that do succeed at convincing the females to engage in certain activities must be something unique or special, names like studes and pimps are rewarded.
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It's nice that you're thinking about it. When I first saw your name on Yahoo Answers I could only see the 'hurricane' part, and I had to mouse over to make sure it wasn't 'hurricane katrina', because that one would have made me jump, she's too recent to joke about. But 'camille', that should be fine, I'm guessing a lot of the internet users these days were born after 1969 so they wouldn't be offended.
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You should find all the info you need here:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane#Structure_and_classification
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hurricanes are given names. Why is that? To help us identify storms and track them as they move across the ocean. Remember, there can be more than one hurricane at a time and without naming them, we could get confused and which storm we're talking about.\n\nFor hundreds of years, hurricanes in the West Indies were named after the particular saint's day on which the hurricane occurred. An Australian meteorologist began giving women's names to tropical storms before the end of the 19th century. In 1953, the U.S. National Weather Service, which is the federal agency that tracks hurricanes and issues warnings and watches, began using female names for storms. \n\nIn 1979, both women and men's names were used. One name for each letter of the alphabet is selected, except for Q, U and Z. For Atlantic Ocean hurricanes, the names may be French, Spanish or English, since these are the major languages bordering the Atlantic Ocean where the storm occur. \n\nSo who decides what names are used each year? The World Meteorological Organization uses six lists in rotation. The same lists are reused every six years. The only time a new name is added is if a hurricane is very deadly or costly. Then the name is retired and a new name is chosen.\n\nhope this helps dude
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Katrina\nGender: Feminine \nUsage: English \nPronounced: ka-TREE-na   \nVariant of CATRIONA
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as you put "a male" before just "female" its obvious you are a male\n\nAlso what girl in their right mind would call herself "fishstick"