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A Hurricane Katrina or Sandy by any other name would still be just as devastating, but those names give them an identity.
Storm names also allow us to track tropical storms and hurricanes with less confusion, especially when they follow one another quickly or when there are multiple storms coming out of the Atlantic at once.
The World Meteorological Organization has a committee that maintains storm names. A list is reused every six years, but the names of storms that are particularly devastating – like the aforementioned Katrina and Sandy – get retired and replaced.
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A storm is named when it reaches tropical storm strength with winds of 39 mph. A tropical storm becomes a hurricane when its winds reach 75 mph.
The 2014 Atlantic tropical storm and hurricane names are:
Arthur
Bertha
Cristobal
Dolly
Edouard
Fay
Gonzalo
Hanna
Isaias
Josephine
Kyle
Laura
Marco
Nana
Omar
Paulette
Rene
Sally
Teddy
Vicky
Wilfred
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Arthur, Bertha, Cristobal: Full List of 2014 Atlantic Storm Names was originally published on news92fm.com
