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 ...

The 2025 hurricane season will experience what meteorologists call "La Nada" conditions which historically correlate with ...

Katrina, Sandy, Andrew — some names are inextricably linked with some of the most devastating hurricanes in recent U.S. history. But how do hurricanes and other tropical storms get their names?

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 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.

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 ...