Female-named hurricanes cause `` significantly more deaths , '' a study finds . `` The only time that there is a change is if a storm is so deadly or costly that the future use of its name on a different storm would be inappropriate for obvious reasons of sensitivity , '' the National Hurricane Center said . Researchers analyzed over six decades of death rates from U.S. hurricanes . Experiment participants considered hypothetical male storms deadlier than female storms . The results showed that the effect was strongest for women who were widowed or divorced and had children younger than 18 years old at the time of their hurricane's landfall. "
Female-named hurricanes cause `` significantly more deaths , '' a study finds . Researchers analyzed over six decades of death rates from U.S. hurricanes . Experiment participants considered hypothetical male storms deadlier than female storms . The results showed that the effect was strongest for women who were widowed or divorced and had children younger than 18 years old at the time of their hurricane's landfall. "