The hurricane that struck Louisiana and New Orleans this weekend August 28 and 29 was named Ida. In August 2020, Hurricane Laura made landfall in Louisiana as a category 4.Two months later, Hurricane Zeta, a Category 3, left half a million people without power and caused $1.25 billion in damage. The list goes on. Question: How do they come up with hurricane names?
The lists of hurricane names for each season are chosen by the World Meteorological Organization (not The Old Farmer’s Almanac). There are six lists of names for Atlantic and Pacific storms, which are cycled through every six years, according to Almanac
Experts assign names to hurricanes according to a formal list of names that is approved before the start of each hurricane season. The U.S. National Hurricane Center started this practice in the early 1950s. Now, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) generates and maintains the list of hurricane names. Source: Earthsky