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The hurricane season runs from June 15 to November 30. Only a few storms have been recorded before or after those dates. Weather Bureau officials Repeatedly have to declare that (in naming storms they don't have particular individuals in mind. Yet an occasional angry husband does complajn when a particularly nasty storm bears his wife’s name. Many women write: “Please name a hurricane after me." Suggestions have been made to designate hurricanes tty Greek letters ( ^lpha. Beta, OamnVaJi, ‘ft^mefe yf anim«$-‘ (Antefopef Bear, Coyote), do- 1 scriptive adjectives (Annoy ing, Blustery. Churning), or infamous men ( Attila. Blue Beard, Cain). Naming hurricanes^ is pot ! a new practice. For several j hundred years many West Indian ■ hurricanes ^jere named after’ saints on whose days they arrived. Residents of San to Dorlingo called a 1834 storm “Padre Ruiz” for a priest who was being buried when it struck. A hurricane that hit Florida in November, 1935, was dubbed “Yankee Storm" because it moved from the nf^rtji.
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