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Hurricane Naming System: A Summary And Analysis

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The first standardized hurricane naming system occurred in the nineteenth century, in the early days of hurricane tracking. Storms were identified based on their geographical locations using the latitudinal and longitudinal information. However, this system was confusing when there was more than one storm in the same ocean basin (WMO, 2014). Clement Wragge, a controversial Australian meteorologist, was the first to give a women’s name to tropical storms at the end of the 19th century (NHC, 2014). This colorful meteorologist at the head of the Australian weather office first named the storms after characters from the Greek mythology, but was later inspired by politicians he did not like (Norcross 2007). It is often thought that the inspiration

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