台风名都是怎么取的？_BEC初级作文

台风名都是怎么取的？

Hurricane Harvey. Hurricane Irma. Hurricane Sandy. The names for tropical storms might sound cutesy, but they’re not random.

哈维飓风。厄玛飓风。桑迪飓风。热带风暴的名字听起来很可爱，但它们可不是随机取的。

Originally, hurricanes in the West Indies were named after the saint’s day when the storm hit, according to the NOAA. For instance, there have been two Hurricane San Felipes in Puerto Rico—one that hit on September 13, 1876, and another that same date in 1928.

据NOAA的消息，最初西印度群岛的飓风都是在圣日来袭的，所以人们就以飓风来袭那天圣日的名字来命名飓风。比如，在波多黎各就有两个叫圣菲利普斯的飓风，一个是发生在1876年9月13日，另一个发生在1928年的同一日期。

台风名都是怎么取的？1

By the 1900s, an Australian meteorologist started a new system. Instead of naming hurricanes after saints, he started using women’s names, and the United States followed suit in 1953. By 1979, men’s names were added to the mix. So how do meteorologists pick which name to use?

到了20世纪，一个澳大利亚的气象学家发明了新的命名方法。他不再用圣人的名字命名飓风，而是开始使用女性的名字。美国从1953年开始也如此效仿。到了1979年，男性的名字也被加入了其中。那么，气象学家是如何选择用哪个名字的呢?

The World Meteorological Organization comes up with a list of names way before the storms hit. The group has six lists with 21 names each—one for every letter except Q, U, X, Y, and Z—to be used each year in the Atlantic. So some of the next Atlantic hurricane names you can expect to see are Katia, Lee, Maria, and Ophelia.