Should the WMO/NHC add X, Y and Z names to the lists?

[James]

Perhaps the use of names made it easier to remember specific storms, which is useful when there is more than one system out there. Numerical stuff can get complicated (at least with me ) so perhaps it was just easier that way and would make it more accessible.

[El Nino]

Well, we could use some celebrity names. Maybe Angelina in place of Alpha and Brad in place of Beta

[arcticfire]

I think the simple solution would be to not name a system till it reached hurricain strength. TS1, TS2 etc should be fine since Tropical Storms are more inline threat wise with supercell systems rumbling across the plains, and we don't name those. If you stop naming storms and only name hurricains you wouldn't go threw as many as fast.

[100feettstormsurge]

Names are much more interesting than numbers. Would you rather hear that Hurricane Wilma was the most intense hurricane ever or Hurricane #12 of '05 was the most intense hurricane ever? Same thing with TS.

[El Nino]

Some TS can kill a lot of people : would you like to hear 500 have been killed in Nicaragua after that TS11 been through ?

[arcticfire]

Some TS can kill a lot of people : would you like to hear 500 have been killed in Nicaragua after that TS11 been through ?

Thats a redudent question. No one likes to hear people got killed by anything.Some inherent need to demonize anything that kills people is no reason to constantly fight with naming for years to come.

A tornado kills people do and we don't name those , same for earthquakes , even thuderstorms. What are you going to do if storms start forming year round ? People get complacent about danger regardless of what name you put to it.

I'd much rather hear that TS11 killed 500 people last year , then constantly trying to figure out which Alpha people are refering to , this years or the next 10 to come.

[El Nino]

I suppose it's because hurricanes can affect a bigger region ... or something like that (not the case for T-storm or earthquakes). Maybe we should investigate why they decided to give a name in the past.

But maybe if there's a trend to more tropical cyclones in the future, evolution will change all this.