Hurricane Sandy: How Storms Are Named

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[color=#282828][font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]For many years hurricanes were named after the saint's day on which they fell - hence San Felipe (the first) and San Felipe (the second) which struck Puerto Rico on Sept 13 in 1876 and 1928.[/font][/color]

[color=#282828][font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Today hurricane names alternate between male and female and are chosen from lists selected by the World Meteorological Organisation.[/font][/color]

[color=#282828][font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]The Atlantic has six lists of alphabetically-ordered names with one list used each year. The first hurricane - defined as being when a tropical storm reaches wind speed of 39mph - usually takes the name beginning with A, the second B and so on.[/font][/color]

[color=#282828][font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]From 1953, hurricanes bore only female names - the practice having become popular in discussions between forecasters after the 1941 publication of George R Stewert's novel Storm in which a female hurricane featured.[/font][/color]

[size=4][color=#282828][font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]President Harry S Truman's wife had one named after her and during the Second World War American army and navy meteorologists named tropical cyclones after their wives and girlfriends.[/font][/color][/size]

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