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Who were tropical cyclones named after in the late 19th century?

The English meteorologist Clement Wragg, who worked in Australia, was the first to name tropical cyclones. At first he called them the names of mythological monsters and the letters of the Greek alphabet, and then he began to assign the names of local politicians, who especially annoyed him.

However, the international practice of naming hurricanes arose after World War II, when the Americans decided to use female names for this purpose. But numerous feminist protests eventually led to the fact that in 1979 the World Meteorological Organization approved a new procedure for naming tropical cyclones by both female and male names.

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