Why do hurricane have names.?

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Jackolantern say: It makes it easier to identify with catastrophic events. Rather than saying, " remember that bad storm in Florida in 2018?" We say, "remember Hurricane Michael?"
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Gert say: Storms are given short, distinctive names to avoid confusion and streamline communications. Hurricane Ike (2008), the third costliest storm in United States history. Until the early 1950s, tropical storms and hurricanes were tracked by year and the order in which they occurred during that year.
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Matt say: Because they don't have numbers
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Travis say: To distinguish them
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TQ say: Here's the real reason why hurricanes have names;

Short answer:
Names are easier for the public to remember than numbers or latitude and longitude coordinates … are more relatable to the public than technical terms ... and make for better statements and warnings.

Longer answer:
The naming tradition started in the mid-50s for Atlantic basin storms by the National Hurricane Center. Southwest Indian Ocean tropical cyclones were first named during the 1960/1961 season.

Hurricanes have long been named after women. Some say they were named after forecaster's girl-friends or wives. Others claim the naming convention started because of the storm's unpredictable nature.

This tradition continued until the late 70s when in 1979, with more women were becoming meteorologists, some saw the earlier practice of using only female names as sexist, after which the names alternated between male and female.

Names are easier for the public to remember than numbers or latitude and longitude coordinates … are more relatable to the public than technical terms ... and make for better statements and warnings.

Names beginning with the letters Q, U, X, Y, and Z are never used b/c there are too few names associated with them.

Hurricane names are chosen each year by the United Nation's World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/tcp/St...

The WMO maintains and rotates six lists of names. Names are retired if a storm had particularly devastating or tragic effects.

Here is a list of this years names and upcoming years.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml
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Jake No Chat say: Just to be able to identify them so people can better follow their progress and path of destruction. Such storms are born, they grow, they create some havoc, they age and then go away, so they are pretty much like people, why not name them.
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Nate C say: Why do you have a name?
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frombrum say: people take more notice of things with names
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