Hurricanes and Typhoons were always seemingly named after women.
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Apparently in 1953, the US National Weather Service picked up on the
habit of their Naval meteorologists, in naming the storms after women.
The logic apparently being that as ships were always referred to as
female (and were often given women's names), and with the storms'
temperament often shifting directions at a whim or on a moment's notice,
well ..... and this naming convention was continued by the World
Meteorological Organization when they took over the naming lists.
Anyway this leads to jokes like the one below:
Q: What do women and hurricanes have in common?
A: When they come, they're wet and wild, and when they leave, they take your house and car!
In fact despite the fact that Hurricane Katrina and now Irene are women's names, the fact is that from 1979, male names have been inserted into the lists (to alternate with the female names), to satisfy the PC 'Wimmins' issues brigade, who with all the women's problems in the third world, apparently spent their energies agitating for this naming convention to be changed ....
The next one on the 2011 list (after Arlene, Bret, Cindy, Don, Emily, Franklin, Gert, Harvey, and Irene) will be 'Jose' and then 'Katia' and 'Lee' .... so why is it that I can remember 'Katrina' or 'Cindy' but not 'Don'?
Anyway this leads to jokes like the one below:
Q: What do women and hurricanes have in common?
A: When they come, they're wet and wild, and when they leave, they take your house and car!
In fact despite the fact that Hurricane Katrina and now Irene are women's names, the fact is that from 1979, male names have been inserted into the lists (to alternate with the female names), to satisfy the PC 'Wimmins' issues brigade, who with all the women's problems in the third world, apparently spent their energies agitating for this naming convention to be changed ....
The next one on the 2011 list (after Arlene, Bret, Cindy, Don, Emily, Franklin, Gert, Harvey, and Irene) will be 'Jose' and then 'Katia' and 'Lee' .... so why is it that I can remember 'Katrina' or 'Cindy' but not 'Don'?
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