Who names hurricanes? I am waiting for Hurrican Brianna or Kaylee or Bella or Kaitlyn or

[CurtEastPoint]

Kennedy or Madison or ... Honey Boo Boo.

[texanwitch]

1. I have a old fashion name and never had a hurricane name after me.

Heaven help us with a Hurricane Honey Boo Boo.

[HopeHoops]

2. You'll have to wait 18 months - next year is male names.

[Lionel Mandrake]

9. A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, hurricanes were always female.

Nowadays they take turns: a year of males, a year of females, etc.

But Sandy could be of either gender. So could Pat.

How about a year of unisex hurricanes?

[HopeHoops]

10. It wasn't that long ago. After Agnes, granted, but still - it's been a couple of decades.

[Lionel Mandrake]

11. Okay, I exaggerated.

To start off a gender-neutral year, we would need a unisex name beginning in A.

According to Wikipedia, any of these would do:
Addison, Ainsley, Alex, Alexis, Angel, Ashley, Aubrey, Avery

[fishwax]

13. They alternate within each year, rather than year to year

This year we had Isaac and Ernesto as well as Sandy and Nadine.

Next year we might have Pablo, Chantal, Jerry, and Melissa: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Atlantic_hurricane_season

[OriginalGeek]

3. I had a tropical storm last year

but, I fizzled out before I became a hurricane.

[sakabatou]

4. The World Meteorological Organization gives nams

I have twi storms: Hurricane Michael - 2000 and 2012

[pipi_k]

5. I'm hoping we go back to

really weird kid names so we can see hurricanes named Dweezil Moonshitter, Anal Probe, Borborygmus, etc.

[alarimer]

6. Who's afraid of Hurricane Sandy?

They need to have scary names. If you're going to anthropomorphize storms, make them scary, not like the lead in Grease.

OR name them after assholes.

Hurricane Herman Cain (Hey, that rhymes) or Hurricane Donald Trump.

[whistler162]

8. In leather Sandy looks kinda tough

[whistler162]

7. How about Mariah or after my Mom

Garnet!

[LynneSin]

12. Hurricanes keep repeating the names every 6 years

Basically there are 6 sets of hurricane names. Hurricane Isaac of 2012 also was a name used in 2006 and 2000. The name keeps recycling every 6 years until it some monumental storm that impacts the country and then it is retired.

Hurricane Irene was the last storm name retired since Irene made it to the top 10 of Costliest USA Hurricanes of all time.

I suspect this is the last time we will see Hurricane Sandy.

When a storm is retired then they find a new name to replace it.

There's a serious shortage of hurricane I names - 9 names have retired and not exactly like alot of I names out there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_retired_Atlantic_hurricane_names#Lists_of_retired_names

[RichGirl]

14. I will know that we are no longer a racist country....when...

Hurricane Quonisha