<P> At the 22nd hurricane committee in 2000 it was decided that tropical cyclones that moved from the Atlantic to the Eastern Pacific basin and vice versa would no longer be renamed . Ahead of the 2000 -- 01 season it was decided to start using male names , as well as female names for tropical cyclones developing in the South - West Indian Ocean . RSMC La Reunion subsequently proposed to the fifteenth session of the RA I Tropical Cyclone Committee for the South - West Indian Ocean during September 2001 , that the basin adopt a single circular list of names . Along with the RA V Tropical Cyclone Committee , RSMC La Reunion also proposed to the session that a tropical cyclone have only one name during its lifetime . However , both of these proposals were rejected in favour of continuing an annual list of names and to rename systems when they moved across 90 ° E into the South - West Indian Ocean . During the 2002 Atlantic hurricane season the naming of subtropical cyclones restarted , with names assigned to systems from the main list of names drawn up for that year . </P>
<P> At the 22nd hurricane committee in 2000 it was decided that tropical cyclones that moved from the Atlantic to the Eastern Pacific basin and vice versa would no longer be renamed . Ahead of the 2000 -- 01 season it was decided to start using male names , as well as female names for tropical cyclones developing in the South - West Indian Ocean . RSMC La Reunion subsequently proposed to the fifteenth session of the RA I Tropical Cyclone Committee for the South - West Indian Ocean during September 2001 , that the basin adopt a single circular list of names . Along with the RA V Tropical Cyclone Committee , RSMC La Reunion also proposed to the session that a tropical cyclone have only one name during its lifetime . However , both of these proposals were rejected in favour of continuing an annual list of names and to rename systems when they moved across 90 ° E into the South - West Indian Ocean . During the 2002 Atlantic hurricane season the naming of subtropical cyclones restarted , with names assigned to systems from the main list of names drawn up for that year . </P>
when did hurricanes start being named male names
when did hurricanes start being named male names
Ahead of the 2000 -- 01 season
Ahead of the 2000 -- 01 season