Hurricane names come from long ago and far away: In fact, some of the storm names on the various lists have been around since 1950 (including Flossie), and they come from the imaginations of the ...

Gil is the seventh named storm to form in the Eastern Pacific in 2025. Storms that form in the Atlantic or the Pacific generally move west, meaning Atlantic storms pose a greater threat to North ...

The list is one of six that are rotated every year, meaning this list was last used in 2019 and will be used again in 2031. The names are set by the World Meteorological Organization, a United ...

Three areas are being monitored for tropical development through early August, including a risk off the Southeast coast.

Meteorologist Kristen Currie goes in-depth on the process and reasoning behind naming tropical storms and hurricanes in this week’s episode of Kristen’s Classroom.

The WMO has retired 94 hurricane names in the Atlantic because of a storm’s deadly history and 12 of them started with the letter I. No other letter is even close.

In 1953, the U.S. began using female names for hurricanes, a practice expanded in 1979 to include both female and male names on a six-year rotating list managed by the World Meteorological ...

The list of 2025 Atlantic hurricane storm names has only one new name since the list was last used six years ago. The World Meteorological Organization opted to retire Dorian and replace it with De… ...

From the early 1950s until the late 1970s, hurricanes received only female names. The alternating male-female naming system was adopted in the late 1970s because of society's increased awareness ...

The list is one of six that are rotated every year, meaning this list was last used in 2019 and will be used again in 2031. The names are set by the World Meteorological Organization, a United ...

The history of naming hurricanes dates back to the 1800s, with the earliest evidence of named storms found in Puerto Rico. People on the island would name storms after the saint of the day from ...