Zusammenfassung der Ressource
HURRICANE
NAMES
- hurricanes didn't
use to have names.
forecasting
hurricanes was only
to emergence in the
late 1940's
- it was usually the place
they did the most
damage ( like the
galveston hurricane of
1900)
- the first us unofficially
named hurricane was
george, which hit in 1947.
- the next one given a
name was named after
the first lady of the usa.
bess truman, in 1949
- meteorologists used
different conventions, but in
1953, it is not clear why,
they were named after
women, in alphabetical order
- that year there were hurricanes Alice,
Barbara, Carol,
Dolly,Edna,Florence,Gilda,Hazel,Irene,Jill,
Katherine,Lucy,Mabel,Norma,Orpa,patsy,
Queen, Rachel,Susie,Tina.Una,Vicky and
women's names began to be alternated to
name the storms