Hurricanes began getting names in 1950, when the U.S. Weather Bureau began using the phonetic alphabet (Able-Baker-Charlie). The storm with the most appearances so far is Arlene, which has ...

Pagasa assigns local names to tropical cyclones only after they enter PAR, the region designated by the World Meteorological Organization for the state weather bureau to monitor. This practice ...

Sky News Weather Meteorologist Rob Sharpe says the Bureau of Meteorology began naming tropical cyclones in 1963 in a bid to reduce confusion and raise awareness if multiple cyclones were active.

No other state in the country has more hurricane landfalls per year on average than Florida does. Nearly 40% of all ...