Hurricane Names 2013: Atlantic Basin and Eastern North-Pacific Tropical Storm Names

Here are tropical storm and hurricane names for 2013 for both the Atlantic Basin and Eastern North-Pacific.

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Wondering when the practice of naming hurricanes began, and where the word hurricane comes from?

• Native Americans called these storms Hurakons, after "a great spirit who commanded the east wind." Spanish explorers adopted the word and then began giving hurricanes the names of patron saints on whose feast days the storms occurred. Later, hurricanes were identified by their longitude and latitude.
• A weatherman in Australia is credited with being the first person to name a tropical storm after a female. By World War II, meteorologists in the U.S. military named storms after their girlfriends and wives. The first storm in the Atlantic Ocean named for a man was Hurricane Bob!
• Hurricanes names are selected by the World Meteorological Organization. Every six years, the list of names begins again! However, the names of especially destructive hurricanes are usually retired.

See the "retired" tropical storm and hurricane names [3].

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