Any idea who names them? Katarina, Rita and Wilma… hmmm 
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their mums
I read here on GS that Wilma was the mother of all hurricanes,
therefore wilma mustve named em, unless of course wilma is Pakistani, and then the Grandparents will name otherwise they get sulky
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Who chooses their gender? Why was it Wilma and not, say Willy or William?
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World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the United Nations agency.
Military weather forecasters began giving women’s names to significant storms during WWII, then in 1950 the WMO agreed to an alphabetical naming system, using the military’s radio code. The first named Atlantic hurricane was Able in 1950.
Feminists urged the WMO to add men’s names, which was done in 1979. The boy-girl-boy-girl naming convention evolved to include French and Spanish names in the Atlantic system, reflecting the languages of the nations affected by Carribean hurricanes.
The twenty-one names reserved each year (the letters q, u, x, y and z are not used) are recycled every six years, minus those retired (such as Hugo and Andrew and, you can bet, Katrina). When a name is retired, the WMO chooses a new name to replace it.
Here are the six lists that rotate:
http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/archive/hurricane/names.html