How and Why Do They Name Hurricanes and Who Picks the Name? 

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Hearing Simon unironically refer to Mambo Number 5 throughout the script has made my day lolol

My mom said that Andrew was named after me because of how I left my room. Ironically, my sister's name is Katrina.

I am a Katrina survivor. My parents took us to corsicana Texas and I spent a bit of time there before we were cleared to come back home. It wasn't just the sheer destruction that was traumatizing and sad, it was the aftermath. People looting buildings, looters dying because electricity was still on in certain areas where dirty water was exposed to open lines, the prisoners breaking out and the horror stories of inmates protecting the teenagers from p*d0s and r*pists, the tons who were displaced and the anger at the government for not ever keeping the Levy's in check, nor upgrading them like they were asked to do for countless years. These storms, and the aftermath of what they leave behind, are some of the worst tragedies we can imagine outside of war. No one deserved to die because government officials were ignorant to fixing the one system that could have potentially saved a good portion of the state. I still have anger about it. But that time is long gone and I don't live in Louisiana anymore... At some point when the government is more worried about prison labor and paying politicians than getting red cross inside and getting help to people who needed it after the storm, even years later, you just can't deal with it. I'm glad I left. Louisiana is not, and never will be like it once was before Katrina.

When I was young and asked that question I was informed that “In the beginning they are “”wet and wild”” but when they go away they take your house “

W is indeed used....Wilma of 2005 broke records

@4:18 Looks like the opening sequence of the first two years of the Matt Smith era of DOCTOR WHO (you just need a police box flying through the storm and Murray Gold's music)

Hurricane Fran september 1996. I remember that being the worst of my lifetime but i was only 6 at the time. Still i remember being in the middle of it, saw the eerie calm of the eye and heard the wind howl all night only to wake the next morning to find trees toppled and roads flooded and no power for almost a week. It made landfall full force nearly 90 miles from my home in the same state with winds over 120

1:00 I was expecting a TARDIS to zoom into frame .

Just remember the universal hurricane evacuation plan and you'll be fine. Grab beer, run like hell.

Nice to know all the severe storms with different names are basically the same👍

I always thought they were named after the wives of the ones who spotted them first.

Thanks man! I've always wondered that, but never got a lot of info during my searches.

In 2020 we got hit with Laura and Delta in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Within a year we had two storms, a massive flood, and an ice storm. Tough times for my little town.

Thor for the winter storm on the US East Coast a few years back was one of my "favorites." It was a mess, but not THAT bad, so it was silly instead of tragic.

I was in Vinton Louisiana when Laura hit. Growing up on the Gulf Coast of setx I know all to well the troubles and dangers of these storms

My name is Andrew and had a date with a girl named Katrina and we lived in south Florida. I got some morbid amusement out of that.

Hurricane Juan(twice) and hurricane Dorian did a number to east coast Canada.

I remember the hurricane season of 2020, it got to the point i started counting days not in the cone of uncertainty because we spent most of the summer and fall in the cone. zeta was just a really, i mean really, isn't 2020 bad enough already?

@ 4:29 Um, every list shown at 4:02 has names beginning with 'W'

Other weather systems can also receive names, especially the storms that are sweeping over Europe. In the case of Germany, they may even carry two names, one is international, the other german. People still remember especially those that flattened large swaths of german forests, them being the combo of Vivian and Wiebke in 1990, Lothar in 1999, and Kyrill in 2007.

This whole piece must have been engineered to get factboi to name the ladies from mombo #5

I lived thru Super Typhoon Soudelor and Super Typhoon Yutu. Wind gusts ranging 180-220mph . It was traumatizing😢

I can remember a few years ago in Scotland a weather system called hurricane baw bag.

Back in 2011, Scotland had a hurricane called Bawbag

I love these videos and have never really noticed anything like a mistake, but they show a photo of a bunch of years that clearly show the names to include Ws and writhing 30 seconds he says they don’t use Ws

Typhoon 🌀 is also a japanese word we have adopted into english 🇯🇵

Can confirm, my sister would 100% be a hurricane. That list is spot on.

My husband brought this question up when Connecticut was hit with our second and last winter storm Beech, the first one was Aspen so obviously it's was names of trees this year 🤷🏻‍♀️ But who gets to decide?

*2005* and 2020 were actually the two years that went over 21 names.

Mom still gives me grief over the fact that the first male Hurricane in modern history was named David

For me on why they named storms is because to lessen the confusion on which storms they are talking to. Before storms been name with human names back then they want to named them by their location with many degrees north, south, east and west. Im the North Atlantic, Northeastern Pacific and all the southern hemisphere they named the storm alphabetically while in the Northwestern Pacific and North Indian Ocean don't named the storm alphabetically, but named them by their cultural word. And we all know some deadly storms in the North Atlantic like Andrew, Katrina,Sanny, Harvey,etc but there's nothing compared to the Northwestern Pacific and the North Indian Ocean storms. Most of Earth's strongest storms are located here in the Northwestern Pacific and also produced the most 200mph+ storms and also the most active basin on Earth with 39 named storms in 1964 while the North Indian Ocean make up the most deaths like the 1970 Bhola cyclone with 500,000 deaths and Cyclone Nargis in 2008 with more than 100,000 deaths. And yes, the North Atlantic can be capable of making strong storms like Allen and Wila for example, but still pale in comparison with the Northwestern Pacific.

I say we should have hurricanes named via internet poll. Hurricane bawbag was a great name

Cyclone Gabrielle and Jasper aren't on the 2023 list Simon ... or is it just randomized names?

7:21 ...or Simon, eh, Brain Boy? 😆

Hurricane coming! Let's go to the beach and watch it!

Damn I didn't realize they retire names. I guess I lived to witness the one and only hurricane with the same name as me

They're probably lucky I'm not incharged of naming anything

If hurricane winds start at 74 mph then my bowl movements are considered category 5. 😫

uh..... anybody remember hurricane andrew? or hugo? or charlie, or ian, or michael? maybe you had to be there..... 🌀🌪️⛈️

Now they are giving names to winter storms.

I moved to gulf coast Florida and within a year experienced the wrath of Ian, a Category 4 hurricane. FFS, I never want to go through that again.

My brother was born in Florida shortly after Andrew came through… Andrew became his middle name LMAO

Hurricane "BAWBAG" was the best name.

I feel like the practice should be retired entirely, personally. Humanizing storms in general seems like it generates problems with taking them seriously, especially given culture's surrounding names (like "Bob" isn't a threatening name to most people yet a hurricane with that name killed 17 people in 1991). Then there's also the irrational stigma that can come around that sort of thing. I feel for anyone who grew up in the mid-2000s in Louisiana with the name Katrina, it's a pretty name and it means "pure" yet all it means to many there is destruction and chaos. It's a uniquely hurricane thing too, we don't do the same for big tornadoes, wildfires, blizzards, or other disasters, so there's not really any compelling reason to adhere to tradition.

I've been through 2 Hurricanes, luckily I wasn't near the ocean so it was just damaging winds.

hurricanes were given women's names when I was a kid

The weather people will often retire a name if they feel like it's become associated with too many non-destructive storms - the last thing that they want is for people to think, "Oh, it's just another Leroy (or whatever)," and then get caught off-guard when the storm suddenly takes a turn for the worse!

I thought we had a cyclone Yasi.

Not many Bola survivor's comments curious? Oh no makes sense they didn't have cell phones and coverage at sea is spotty at best.

Oh dear, I see my name scheduled to come up in 2025

hmm lets see how many of these hurricanes i lived thru in south louisiana

Hurricane Karen next year, how oddly poetic 😂😅🤣

I never want to be killed by Storm Nigel.

Also Nigel .... Thats just irony waiting to happen...

“We’ll name him Scrambles.. Scrambles the.. death… dealer..”

Did you not see the episode of The Simpsons when they had the hurricane? As Kent Brockman goes and I quote “If you ever wondered why hurricanes are named after a woman, all you have to do is see the gals scrambling for items at a Clearance Sale.”

NOW IM OBLIGATED TO PLAY THE SONG

If a storm is named Tina, you have been warned. A succubus of incalculable damage awaits you.

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It drives me nuts. Why can't we just have weather these days?

I know that they pick the names in alphabetical order so Hugo would have been the the 8th hurricane of the year now how they measure strength of it is what I'd love to know

Remember years ago In scotland there was a big storm I think it actually was a hurricane and the Scottish people called it "hurricane bawbag" ????? What a moment in time hahaha people on the news saying Bawbag with a serious face haha

Man how many channels does this guy have 😂 I've watched four videos from four different channels and he's in every video on all the channels 😂 good stories though.

I survived Hurricane Scrambles The Death Dealer

Hurricanes spin counter clockwise and cyclones spin clockwise

Lol simon not getting the mambo #5 reference

This is like the eighth time you've covered this topic...

Where's my fellow Katrina survivors at?

Hurricane Scrambles the Death Dealer

Hurricane was a god as I remember

"It's another chick storm, I'll take care of her, honey baby."

Hurrican verses hurricane.

"women don't want to be associated with disaster... Men are okay though."

Growing up in the 1960's I asked a teacher why are they named after girls and women and not boys and men. He said don't be stupid boy they're "Her"i-canes. If they were named after men and boys they'd be called "Him" i-canes. And there is no such thing as a "Him-i-canes.

Imagine being killed by hurricane Nigel

As a woman in 2024, I wish female named storms was the worst part of discrimination.

They're all named after weather nerds ex girlfriends'.

they have never used my name maybe they never will. I have no problem with them naming all storms after women but I guess either way is fine.

They name them after their exs

Does bro know hurricane has an e in it?

Hurricanes come in fast and leave everything wet. They are strong independent women

Dear Simon, I would enjoy your videos more if you can talk a bit slower 😊

A "Hurricane Karen" is overdue.

Katrina is not a popular baby name anymore.

Back in the day, it was said they they named hurricanes after women, because they were unpredictable, like women were.

I like them being female names....its a way of reminding us of how distructive "mother" nature is

Stop naming things after people. Number them. Year-dash-number, e.g. 2024-1, 2024-2, ... Literally nobody could possibly be offended by this.

how and why? it is atmospheric racism

How dare 6o7 m8s gender that hurricane +

Still should be named after women. I've weathered 10 hurricanes in the last 17 years at sea. Generally it's a rough 24 hours. Why they always start in the middle of the night the night ? No idea. Marriage, for me anyway , was 10 years. It wasn't near as stressful but I never had to give one a house either. Capt.Bob ,SV ( Sailing Vessel ) 27th Chance, Tampa Fl, USA 🇺🇸

Hurricanes were named after only women until feminists kicked up a storm over it? 🤣🤣🤣

Just dont do a video if you dont have any good ideas

A few overpaid geeks.

I was wondering if any tropical storms had been named "Simon" - the answer is "yes"! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_storms_named_Simon