Why are storms named after people?

Why are names are blacklisted? The World Meteorological Organisation keeps six separate lists of 21 names, enough for a year's worth of tropical storms. This means that, usually, storm names are re-used every six years, but there are some names which will never crop up again. read more

Also, when when There Are More Than 21 Named Storms,the additional storms are given names from the Greek alphabet: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta are used for their names. In other words. Hurricanes are given names according to a formal system that is managed by the World Meteorological Organization. read more

The next year, the bureau embraced forecasters’ informal practice of giving hurricanes women’s names. Because America led the world in weather tracking technology at the time, many other countries adopted the new nomenclature. read more