Large burial and shell mounds are not uncommon in coastal Alabama and you can book a guided trip to explore the Bottle Creek mound site deep in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta. Archeological digs are currently underway in Gulf Shores to uncover areas of these canals. You can see the remains of these canals along several trails in the park. Connecting the park’s lakes to the back bays kept the native travelers safe from the dangers of open water. These canals made it possible to travel from Mobile to Pensacola to borrow, sell, and trade stuff with their neighbors. More than 600 years ago, the Mississippian Indians that lived along the coast also dug the first canals connecting Mobile Bay to the Gulf of Mexico by joining Oyster Bay to Little Lagoon. This new supplemental list can be seen in the accompanying table.The Paleo-Indians, who lived here as far back as 13,500 years hunting the American mastodon eventually gave way to complex and connected communities of native peoples all along the Gulf Coast. In March 2021, the World Meteorological Organization Hurricane Committee made the decision to stop using the Greek alphabet, and developed a replacement list. However, this system led to confusion in the record-breaking Atlantic storm season of 2020, when multiple storms with similar-sounding names (Zeta, Eta, and Theta) were concurrently active. In the past, the additional storms were given names from the Greek alphabet: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and so on. ![]() In the rare years when more than 21 storms are named, a supplemental list is used. There are normally fewer than 21 named tropical storms in any calendar year. Supplemental Atlantic Tropical Storm Names For the Atlantic hurricane names, there are six lists which are reused every six years. Today, the World Meteorological Organization maintains the lists of names for tropical storms around the world. During even-numbered years, men's names were given to the odd-numbered storms and during odd-numbered years, women's names were given to odd-numbered storms (see the table for recent name lists). The first tropical storm of the year was given the name beginning with the letter "A," the second with the letter "B" and so on through the alphabet. For each year a list of 21 names, each starting with a different letter of the alphabet, was developed and arranged in alphabetical order (names beginning with the letters Q, U, X, Y and Z were not used). Meteorologists for the Atlantic Ocean began using men's names in 1979. In 1978, meteorologists watching storms in the eastern North Pacific began using men's names for half of the storms. A list of names that have been retired from 1979-2021 can be viewed on this page. Out of respect for the people who suffered losses, these names were retired and will not be used again for tropical storms. The same is true of Hurricane Ida in 2021. In 2020, Hurricanes Laura, Eta, and Iota caused significant damages and fatalities. Once this practice started, hurricane names quickly became part of common language, and public awareness of hurricanes increased dramatically. That naming method made communication so easy that in 1953 it was adopted by the National Hurricane Center for use on storms originating in the Atlantic Ocean. During the Second World War, military meteorologists working in the Pacific began to use women's names for storms. These names were difficult to remember, difficult to communicate and subject to errors. ![]() In the early days of meteorology in the United States, storms were named with a latitude / longitude designation representing the location where the storm originated. People living in the Caribbean Islands named storms after the saint of the day from the Roman Catholic liturgical calendar for the day on which the hurricane occurred such as "Hurricane San Felipe." When two hurricanes struck on the same date in different years, the hurricanes would be referred to by names such as "Hurricane San Felipe the first" and "Hurricane San Felipe the second." Names have been given to Atlantic hurricanes for a few hundred years. The names used for recent and future Atlantic storms are listed in the table on this page. In the Atlantic Ocean, tropical storms that reach a sustained wind speed of 39 miles per hour are given a name, such as "Tropical Storm Fran." If the storm reaches a sustained wind speed of 74 miles per hour, it is called a hurricane - such as "Hurricane Fran." So, hurricanes are not given names, tropical storms are given names, and they retain their name if they develop into a hurricane.
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