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• This is the story of the Hurriclone

An open list of 97 words by Prolagus.

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Also known as Yes, we hurricane.

A collective effort to list all first names that are also hurricane/cyclone/tropical storm names.

The only rules are
1) double-check your spelling
2) omit the "Hurricane" part.

Please visit also Retired hurricane names, by dontcry.

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  • ruzuzu I just added isaac. Aug 29, 2012

  • ruzuzu *favorited* Feb 3, 2011

  • bilby I've harvested some names from this site. Dec 10, 2008

  • sionnach Oh. I have so many questions about this list.

    Should we think of it as documenting the actual (hurricanes that have actually happened - why does that sentence make me feel like a Cockney flower girl?) or is it also pregnant with the potential?

    As the latter seems uncomfortably close to divination, might I suggest that anyone listing the name of a future hurricane provide an annotation giving the method by which they arrived at the forecast - e.g., extispicy, kephalonomancy, ololygmancy, or the ever-popular apantomancy? This seems particularly desirable for names lower in the alphabet. For instance, it seems like a given that there will be a hurricane Cosme in the Eastern North Pacific in 2013, but putting Velma on the list without further justification seems unwarranted.

    What about brouhahas, tempests in a teacup, imbroglios, and hurricanoes?

    Who knows what the name of Lear's hurricano was?

    Then there was the hypertyphonic year of Katrina, when they exhausted the list and had to resort to calling the later ones alpha, beta, etc? (And, in case you were wondering, if necessary these 'names' are eligible for retirement as well).


    Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow!
    You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
    Till you have drench’d our steeples, drown’d the cocks!
    You sulphurous and thought-executing fires,
    Vaunt-couriers of oak-cleaving thunderbolts,
    Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,
    Strike flat the thick rotundity o’ the world!
    Crack nature’s moulds, all germens spill at once,
    That makes ingrateful man!

    Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! Spout, rain!
    Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters.
    I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness;
    I never gave you kingdom, call’d you children;
    You owe me no subscription. Then let fall
    Your horrible pleasure. Here I stand, your slave,
    A poor, infirm, weak, and despis’d old man;
    But yet I call you servile ministers,
    That will with two pernicious daughters join
    Your high engender’d battles ’gainst a head
    So old and white as this. Oh! Oh! ’tis foul! Dec 6, 2008

  • Prolagus See, John? This is why we need ways to interconnect lists... :) Dec 6, 2008

  • dontcry I have a list called: "Retired Hurricane Names" if anyone wants to go retro. Dec 5, 2008

  • bilby It's not a list reserved for rich people, ptero. Dec 4, 2008

  • chained_bear *snicker* Dec 3, 2008

  • Prolagus Only if you find a new name for this list. Dec 3, 2008

  • pterodactyl *raises hand politely*

    What about typhoons? Dec 3, 2008

  • bilby 'This Is The Story Of The Hurriclone'. Dec 2, 2008

  • Prolagus Only if you find a new name for this list. Dec 2, 2008

  • bilby May I do cyclones as well? Dec 2, 2008