Most Interesting Name Lists (Atlantic and Eastern Pacific)

[Kennethb]

There are many names that do not sound like Hurricane names, until they are named, become strong storms and hit someone. Kartina, Ike, and Rita are a couple that come quick to mind.

[somethingfunny]

List #1 is the best. It's the least utilized list, hving been shafted twice (97 and 09) in the current active period. 1985 and 2003 were the only times it's gotten very far past 10 storms, and yet it's still slammed retirements into history....Bob, David, Elena, Frederic/Fabian, Gloria, Isabel, Juan....should've been Kate.....this list looks nothing like it originally did.

But the best thing about List #1 is it's got so many funny names. Mindy. LOL. Honorable mentions for Ana, Danny, Fred, Grace, Henri, and Larry. Basically if it hasn't been retired yet it's because the world's historians wouldn't know what to do with such an absurd sounding hurricane.

[Hurricane Jed]

List 1 is also the only list to have a B name retired off it Bob.

[HurricaneRyan]

List 1 is also the only list to have a B name retired off it Bob.

and an E name. Elena

[HurricaneRyan]

I don't have a favorite list. I have certain names that I dislike being on the lists, and that leads to me having least favorite lists.

I really don't like the use of diminutive forms of names ending in -ie or -y as hurricane names. To me such forms sound too "friendly" or "child-like" to be scary. If people's given names are going to be used to name hurricanes, I think they should be names that have a chance of sounding like powerful adults.

So I don't like having Shary, Cindy, Tammy, Debby, Patty, Sandy, Tony, Dolly, Sally, Teddy, Vicky, Danny, and Mindy on the lists. They all seem to "cutesy" for hurricanes to me. Jerry and Larry aren't quite so bad because they've been used as official given names so often in the USA that they manage to sound "adult" to me in spite of originally being pet forms. Bonnie, Harvey, Leslie, Barry, and Wendy are more acceptable to me since they aren't primarily of "nickname" origin (though Wendy does still sound a bit too "cute" for my taste.)

So lists #4 and #6 would be my least favorite because they each contain four of the names I really don't like. #4 is a bit worse than #6 because I think Debby is a worse name for a hurricane than Dolly -- Dolly Parton's image makes Dolly seem more "adult" to me, I guess.

I suppose my two favorite lists would be a tie between #2 and #5. #2 has only one name I really dislike (Shary), and #5 has none of my worse "dislikes" but three of the semi-bads (Barry, Jerry, and Wendy.)

Gurl, what have you been smoking?

TONY is an Italian Mafia name. How is that NOT powerful?

Emily Osment from Hannah Montana as my friend Emily are BOTH fierce and powerful. And Emily has proven herself.

Talk show host Wendy Williams! She's a powerful bish!

[Hurricane Jed]

List 1 is also the only list to have a B name retired off it Bob.

and an E name. Elena

Very true.

[Cleveland Kent Evans]

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Gurl, what have you been smoking?

TONY is an Italian Mafia name. How is that NOT powerful?

Emily Osment from Hannah Montana as my friend Emily are BOTH fierce and powerful. And Emily has proven herself.

Talk show host Wendy Williams! She's a powerful bish!

As a 59 year old man I do not appreciate being addressed as "gurl" no matter what the spelling. That was just rude. Of course, "boy" would have been just as rude.

Emily is not a name I had objections to, though your personal friend would have no bearing on how the general public perceives the name.

[Metalicwx220]

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Gurl, what have you been smoking?

TONY is an Italian Mafia name. How is that NOT powerful?

Emily Osment from Hannah Montana as my friend Emily are BOTH fierce and powerful. And Emily has proven herself.

Talk show host Wendy Williams! She's a powerful bish!

As a 59 year old man I do not appreciate being addressed as "gurl" no matter what the spelling. That was just rude. Of course, "boy" would have been just as rude.

Emily is not a name I had objections to, though your personal friend would have no bearing on how the general public perceives the name.

LOL Im sorry..... I sensitive to laughing at things like this LOL. I laugh a lot about silly things and cry a lot about sad things.

[Hurricane Jed]

What would happen if a storm with a name from the Greek Alphabet were to be highly destructive or deadly? Would they retire it or what?

[Florida1118]

What would happen if a storm with a name from the Greek Alphabet were to be highly destructive or deadly? Would they retire it or what?

"Any storm with a Greek name that warrants retirement will be listed in the historical roll call with the year appended to the letter. For example, if “Alpha” proves tragic this year, it may be retired as “Alpha2006.” This way, says Max Mayfield, chairman of the 26-nation WMO Region IV Tropical Cyclone Programmer, in the rare case that a Greek-lettered storm is recommended for retirement, the letter can be used again. “We are all secretly hoping that it doesn’t happen, but if it does, it does.” -http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/BAMS-87-6-760

[Hurricane Jed]

I'd say add X,Y and Z to the lists kinda like in the East Pacific so they wouldn't have to do that. Its rare we get down that far and rarer still a name down there will be retired but after Wilma got retired that is no guarantee.

[Florida1118]

You would need at least 6 X,Y,Z names, and probably 10 backups just in case. So easy to pronounce X,Y,Z names probably aren't going to be easy to make more.

[Hurricane Jed]

I know. Unless we make up names like Zebra or Zip or pull names from other countries like Yoshi or Yasuharu from Japan. But that won't happen.

[bexar]

List III is the most interesting.... If ever It would still produce Rina, Sean and Tammy, it would be the most prolific list among the 6 for 2nd time around.

List II is quite interesting as well, it usually produce strong long-trackers.

[jimvb]

I pick the Greek Alphabet, because it has been used only once, in 2005.

[RainbowAppleJackDash]

List 5 is best list.
Why?
They have all the cute, cool, more modern, interesting names, so NOTHING COMPARES to this naming list in the ATL. LOL.
It has my favourite hurricane name in it as well.
Lorenzo.

[Steve H.]

boy, this season really must be a dud - if it's come to this