HURRICANE NAMES

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HURRICANE NAMES
  1. Hurricanes didn't use to have names
    1. forecasting hurricanes wasonly begenningto emergein the late 1940's
    2. during world war ll, US metereologists working in the pacific Ocean began naming tropical cyclones
      1. It was qicker to name theme than to refer to each one by its specific location
      2. The first US unofficially named hurricane was George, which in 1947.
        1. The next one given a name was named after the first lady of the USA.
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