How Do You Name A Hurricane?
b"How did we wind up with a storm named Iota? Well, we ran out of hurricane names.\\nEvery year, the World Meteorological Organization puts out a list of 21 names for the season\\u2019s hurricanes and tropical storms. But this year, the Atlantic hurricane season was so active that by September, we'd flown through the whole list of names and had to\\xa0switch to\\xa0the Greek alphabet. Thus, Hurricane Iota became the 30th named storm of the season.\\nWe\\u2019ve only had to dip into the Greek alphabet once before, in 2005. But the practice of naming hurricanes goes back to the 19th century, and it was a bit of a bumpy ride to land on the system we use today. In this episode: The story of a meteorologist in Australia, a novel, and a second-wave feminist from Florida\\u2014and how they brought us hurricane names.\\nGuests:\\xa0\\nChristina M. Gonzalez is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin.Liz Skilton is a historian and the author of Tempest: Hurricane Naming and American Culture.\\nFootnotes & Further Reading:\\xa0\\nFor more hurricane history, check out A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes by Eric Jay Dolin.\\nTo learn more about Roxcy Bolton and the fight to change the naming system, read Liz Skilton\\u2019s article \\u201cGendering Natural Disaster: The Battle Over Female Hurricane Names.\\u201d\\nCredits:\\nScience Diction is hosted and produced by Johanna Mayer. Our editor and producer is Elah Feder. We had story editing from Nathan Tobey, and fact checking by Michelle Harris. Our composer is Daniel Peterschmidt. Chris Wood did sound design and mastered the episode.\\xa0Special thanks to the Florida State Library & Archives for\\xa0allowing us use footage from Roxcy Bolton\\u2019s oral history interview. Nadja Oertelt is our chief content officer."