The History Channel
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carol, Connie carla, cleo Camille, Celia. Carmen, charlie. History explains how hurricanes get their names for a long time. There was no standard for naming hurricanes, But in the mid 1890s British meteorologist Clement Wragge started naming tropical storms after women he met while living in the Pacific. Then during World War two, american meteorologist started naming hurricanes after their wives and girlfriends. By 1953, the US government officially started giving women's names to tropical storms in the North, Atlantic and Eastern and Central Pacific. But in the 1970s, some women started asking why men's names weren't also used. One even proposed renaming hurricanes him McCain's. So in 1979, weather organizations made things equal, alternating between male and female names. That's why today you're just as likely to get an alert about hurricane nick as you are about hurricane Nicole.