Hurricane Harvey

[pocaracas]

I think that started in the 80s ... goddamned feminists!

Yeah, I posted that and then thought... When was Hurricane Andrew? Wasn't that a bad one?

Hurricane naming... Basically, they use a list that's recycled every six years and it has both male and female names:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml

If a particular hurricane becomes newsworthy, that name gets pinned to that year and they have to replace it on the list.
The list runs in alphabetical order, each year starting with a name that begins in A.
So, Mr. Andrew was the first hurricane of the year.


Also, cool bonus fact:
Hurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons are all the same weather phenomenon; we just use different names for these storms in different places. In the Atlantic and Northeast Pacific, the term “hurricane” is used. The same type of disturbance in the Northwest Pacific is called a “typhoon” and “cyclones” occur in the South Pacific and Indian Ocean.