EVER WONDERED ABOUT STORM NAMING? Since we’re obsessed about naming, we find the details of how they name storms pretty interesting. Do you? Check out this #tellthetruths video to learn a little more.
Storm Naming
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TRANSCRIPT:
– Hey guys, it’s Rebeca with BrandTrue. And since I’m such a naming geek and a lot of the people who watch my videos are also naming geeks, I thought we would talk about storm naming. It’s storm season after all, and I find it really, really interesting to understand how storms are named. So first of all, they need to be named because if you try to give them like, sort of obscure code names, RX7 and RX9, then it’s really hard to keep track in a storm season. “Which is the one that’s going up the East coast, and which is the one that’s going in the Gulf?”
Names makes it easier for everyone to keep track. There’s a whole video I’m going to do for you guys about that. It’s really interesting how names allow us to understand things better. So, anyway, that’s the first thing. Second thing is, they used to be named by Saints’ days, right? Different days of the calendar had different names associated with them. Babies born on a particular day might be named that. Well, storms that came on a particular day would be named that. But that is far behind us.
Then, they started giving them only women’s names, which had some weird misogyny in it that I don’t even want to try to unpack. That’s behind us. Now, they typically alternate male and female names and they work their way through the alphabet. I’m sure you know this, the first storm of the season that’s strong enough to become a named storm is an A, the next one is a B, et cetera.
Last year, by the way, was the first time I think, in forever, that we went all the way through the alphabet and had to start again. That’s how many storms we had. Climate change is real. Okay. So anyway… So, the last thing I wanted to tell you guys, is that names get retired. If a storm is very, very destructive, loss of property, especially loss of life, they won’t use that name again. We’ll never see another Hurricane Katrina, for example.
So the recent Hurricane Ida that hit New Orleans and all of Louisiana so hard, sending out good energy to them, hope they get their lights on soon. I bet you that at the end of this storm season, the name Ida will be retired. Anyway, that’s storm naming. Let me know what you think. Let me know what you know, if this topic interests you as much as it does me. Bye!
