{"id":7330,"date":"2024-08-14T06:48:30","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T11:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7330"},"modified":"2026-02-17T10:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T16:30:18","slug":"hurricanes-used-to-only-be-named-after-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/08\/14\/hurricanes-used-to-only-be-named-after-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricanes used to only be named after women."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/historyfacts.com\/science-industry\/fact\/hurricanes-used-to-only-be-named-after-women\/\">History Facts<\/a> Before the 20th century, there was no uniform method for naming hurricanes in the U.S., though some other parts of the world saw creative naming conventions. Residents of the West Indies, for example, named hurricanes after patron saints. And 19th-century British meteorologist Clement Wragge used characters from Greek and Roman mythology, as well as the last names of his political enemies, for typhoons in the Pacific Ocean. He also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/aboutnames_history.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"began a tradition, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">began a tradition<\/a>\u00a0that eventually made its way across the Atlantic: using women\u2019s names for hurricanes. Until the 1940s, hurricanes in the U.S. were generally referred to simply by the year and\/or place they occurred, such as the \u201cGreat Miami Hurricane of 1926.\u201d That changed during World War II, when Navy and Air Force meteorologists\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.noaa.gov\/jetstream\/tropical\/tropical-cyclone-introduction\/tropical-cyclone-names\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"began\u00a0to name the tropical storms, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">began\u00a0to name the tropical storms<\/a> they tracked after their girlfriends and wives for easier reference. For a time, the U.S. military also experimented with naming storms after its phonetic alphabet \u2014 Able, Baker, Charlie, and so on \u2014 but this was replaced with a system thought to be less confusing and easier for the public to remember. In 1954, the National Weather Bureau chose to use women\u2019s names as the standard for hurricanes; that year saw Alice, Barbara, Carol, and others.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/historyfacts.com\/science-industry\/fact\/hurricanes-used-to-only-be-named-after-women\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History Facts Before the 20th century, there was no uniform method for naming hurricanes in the U.S., though some other parts of the world saw creative naming conventions. Residents of the West Indies, for example, named hurricanes after patron saints. And 19th-century British meteorologist Clement Wragge used characters from Greek and Roman mythology, as well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":7332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coping-with-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-14-at-07.49.33.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11459,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7330\/revisions\/11459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}