Hurricanes have been named as far back as the early colonial days. One example would be the “Great Hurricane of 1780.” But when did hurricanes receive their male and female names; the names we know today, such as “Hurricane Andrew?” There are actually several theories on how this naming process came about. Here is one of several theories: Author George R. Stewart may have influenced the naming of hurricanes.
“In 1941, Stewart wrote the best-selling novel Storm in which a junior meteorologist at the San Francisco office of the U.S. Weather Bureau justifies “the sentimental vagary” of naming any long-lasting storm by telling himself that each storm is “really an individual.”
It is believed during World War II, after reading Stewart’s book, navy meteorologists named tropical storms in the Pacific Ocean after their girlfriends and wives.
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Source: Freaks of the Storm by Dr. Randy Cerveny
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