A Good Reason to Have Hurricane Names

July 5th, 2009 by admin

It’s much easier and less confusing than trying to remember a storm by it’s longitude and latitude.  I learned this is the reason they first began to give hurricane names.  They found it to be much easier when there is more than one storm that is being tracked.  Storms reaching tropical storm strength were initially given names to eliminate confusion when there were multiple systems in any individual basin at the same time.  This assists in warning people of the coming storm and is especially important in relaying messages between weather stations and ships.  Obviously it is a simpler form of communication for the local weathermen and newscasters as well. 

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