I was reading a list of hurricane names and notice they recycle the names every six years. This is of course unless one of the hurricanes is large and well known then they retired the name, like they won’t have another hurricane named Andrew or Katrina.
Does anyone know why they recycle them after 6 years. Clearly there are hundreds of names and they ought to be able to think unique names, especially since they use the “ethnic” versions of names for hurricanes too.
I realize they man run out of names for some letters but they ought be able to go once every 25 or 50 years before they run out of some letters.
It’s all about clarity, speed and memory retention while under stressful conditions. My WAG is the names are for the folks caught in the hurricanes and not the rest of us at home in our comfy chairs high and dry.
It used to be all female names. At first, meteorologists named hurricanes after their wives and girlfriends as a joke. Later it became systematic, and eventually male names were added after feminists started complaining about the rather blatant sexism.