Dr. Kim Wood

And I'm like, it.

A storm does not have a gender.

But I mean, do they have like a Google Doc somewhere of like baby names for it?

There's actually a public document on the National Hurricane Center webpage of their six rotating lists.

So as far as where the names come from in the first place, there are committees at the World Meteorological Organization or WMO.

Where people get together to review, one, whether names should be retired when they have very high impacts or when the name itself is fraught with meaning that no longer needs to be used as a name.

Two names that got retired in that regard were Alfred and Isis.

Oh, oh.

So those aren't used anymore.

But those committees are formed of representatives of the countries in the regions affected by those storms.

And so, but they alternate.

So you may notice in the North Atlantic, if the A name is male, it'll be female in the Eastern North Pacific.

So they like mirror each other that way.

I just have to give about that.

There's going to be like a Pepsi.

But how does it actually work?

The workflow of what's going on is very complicated and requires a lot of infrastructure all actually talking to each other.

So servers not going down, satellites actually transmitting, that sort of thing.

But initially, the workflow is we're getting all these observations from weather balloons, from sometimes radar.

Radar is a little complicated in that regard.