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Aug 1, 2017 · From roughly 1953 to 1979, U.S. hurricanes and tropical storms were actually only named after women. For at least 150 years, storm names were “fraught with racism and sexism, personal...
- Why Do Hurricanes Have Names
During World War II, U.S. Air Force and Navy meteorologists...
- Why Do Hurricanes Have Names
Aug 27, 2011 · There are six lists of hurricane names, with alternating male and female monikers — one year "A" is a male name, the next it's a female — that are recycled every six years.
Jun 9, 2023 · Female names, especially friendly sounding names like Belle, may have made the hurricanes seem less intense. This could have caused people to underestimate the storms and take fewer measures to protect themselves before the storms' arrival.
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People have been naming storms for ages; 16th-century Spanish settlers, for example, sometimes namedNorth American gales after saints whose feast days coincided with the natural disasters. The personification trend gained momentum when British meteorologist Clement Wragge—or “Inclement” Wragge, as he was known—came along in the 19th century. By the...
Plenty of people did enjoy the new tradition; the Bureau even fielded requests from women who wanted hurricanes named in their honor. But it had its fair share of objectors, too. Some felt thatattaching women’s names to hurricanes trivialized very real threats. “There’s nothing feminine about one of these killers. And nothing pretty,” Charles Dugan...
By the early 1970s, Roxcy Bolton was already a well-respected force in the feminist community—especially in Florida, where she lived and focused her efforts. In 1968, the remarried mother of four founded the Miami-Dade chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW). She once spearheaded a sit-in at the University of Miami over unequal pay and...
In 1975, the Fiji National Council of Women successfully lobbied New Zealand to introduce male monikers to its theretofore female-only list of storm names, an update Australia made that same year. Then, in 1977, freshly inaugurated President Jimmy Carterappointed the first-ever female U.S. Secretary of Commerce: Juanita M. Kreps. Her dominion inclu...
Jun 2, 2014 · More people die during hurricanes with female names than male, according to a study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. And our gender biases are probably...
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NOAA’s National Hurricane Center does not control the naming of tropical storms. Instead, there is a strict procedure established by the World Meteorological Organization. For Atlantic hurricanes, there is a list of male and female names which are used on a six-year rotation.
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Aug 14, 2024 · In 1954, the National Weather Bureau chose to use women’s names as the standard for hurricanes; that year saw Alice, Barbara, Carol, and others. Continue reading
