The evil stepmom, or Violet, came racing down the stairs and snatched the paper away from Cindy who was reading it aloud. “ Hooray! We get to meet the prince!” the stepsisters said together. One day a messenger came to the mansion, with a message that said: COME TO THE ROYAL BALL, ANY AND ALL AVAILABLE YOUNG LADIES.IT IS MANDATORY. She was always made to do the chores, get everyone ready for anything special, and was never allowed in public. They never liked her because she was the prettiest girl for miles and miles. She lived with her stepmother and two horrible, stepsisters. In this situation, the name will be stricken from the list and another name is selected to replace it at the annual meeting of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).There once was a girl named Cinderella, everyone called her Cindy. The only time the lists above change is when a storm is so deadly or costly that the future use of its name on a different storm would be inappropriate or insensitive. These advantages are especially important in exchanging detailed storm information between hundreds of widely scattered stations, airports, coastal bases, and ships at sea. Why Tropical Cyclones Are NamedĮxperience shows that the use of short, distinctive, given names in written and spoken communications is quicker and less subject to error than the older, more cumbersome latitude-longitude identification methods. In 1979, male and female names were also included in lists for the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. The practice of naming hurricanes solely after women came to an end in 1978, when both men's and women's names were included in the Eastern North Pacific storm lists.

In 1953, United States weather services began using female names for storms after abandoned a confusing a two-year old plan to name storms by a phonetic alphabet (Able, Baker, Charlie, etc.). During World War II, this practice became widespread in weather map discussions among forecasters, especially Air Force and Navy meteorologists who plotted the movements of storms over the wide expanses of the Pacific Ocean.

Stewart, published by Random House in 1941. In the United States, an early example of the use of a woman's name for a storm was in the novel 'Storm' by George R. At the end of the l9th century, he first used letters of the Greek alphabet, then names from Greek and Roman mythology, and eventually progressed to the use of feminine names. The first known meteorologist to assign names to tropical cyclones was Clement Wragge, an Australian meteorologist.

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