We hate Ike!
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Not always, but most of the times, they are indeed female names. I wonder why...(serious question)
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well they are HURricanes, not HIMacanes (bad joke I know). and why do you occasionally have the same hurricane come back, could they just not come up with a new name on the fly?
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Crystallion wrote...
Not always, but most of the times, they are indeed female names. I wonder why...(serious question)The sex of the names are alternately switched as they go down the alphabet, so:
Alfred, Bethany, Chad, Diana
And so on.
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Waar
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have there been many since Katrina? because i don't remember too many since then and I is before K, also how many girl names start with Z or X? I'm not sure your theory is correct.
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Crystallion wrote...
Not always, but most of the times, they are indeed female names. I wonder why...(serious question)
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FrozenAngel wrote...
Crystallion wrote...
Not always, but most of the times, they are indeed female names. I wonder why...(serious question)No, stereotype ^^
(although there exists many a woman that has fire for blood, but I think we are pretty underrated in the "calm" category)
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Crystallion wrote...
FrozenAngel wrote...
Crystallion wrote...
Not always, but most of the times, they are indeed female names. I wonder why...(serious question)No, stereotype ^^
(although there exists many a woman that has fire for blood, but I think we are pretty underrated in the "calm" category)
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Waar wrote...
have there been many since Katrina? because i don't remember too many since then and I is before K, also how many girl names start with Z or X? I'm not sure your theory is correct.Hurricanes are constantly coming of the shores of Africa as tropical storms, we just don't talk about them cause the majority die before reaching the United States, but they are nevertheless named by the list of set hurricane names developed every year. Last year, or maybe the year before that, we had so many hurricanes that the naming system had to switch to roman numerals.
The pattern of naming is also restarting every year.
So Alfred, Bethany, Chad, Diana would be the names for 2008 and next year would be a new set of names starting with an "A" name with a female gender as opposed to the Male name last year. The names are also not made-up as they come, there is a set list made each year with all 26 names A-Z already prepared before the next Hurricane season starts.
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lemiel wrote...
and what's the protocol with tropical storms? do they name those?aznstoner wrote...
Hurricanes are constantly coming of the shores of Africa as tropical storms, we just don't talk about them cause the majority die before reaching the United States, but they are nevertheless named by the list of set hurricane names developed every year. Last year, or maybe the year before that, we had so many hurricanes that the naming system had to switch to roman numerals.
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Captain_Falcon wrote...
lemiel wrote...
and what's the protocol with tropical storms? do they name those?aznstoner wrote...
Hurricanes are constantly coming of the shores of Africa as tropical storms, we just don't talk about them cause the majority die before reaching the United States, but they are nevertheless named by the list of set hurricane names developed every year. Last year, or maybe the year before that, we had so many hurricanes that the naming system had to switch to roman numerals.
well, that answers that...
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king wrote...
i only got one reply to the actual question...You posted in IB and yet you expected anything else? Be happy this didn't end up as a .gif war or penises or something.