Since when is going from 23 to 50 “nearly triple?” Also something that kills on average like three people a year seems like it should be far lower on our priority list.
Also, if the names chosen weren’t so blatantly Eurocentric, most USians would probably not perceive the gender difference anyway. I doubt if most here would know which were the female names in Mandarin, isiZulu, or even Hopi.
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Hear me roar!
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Clearly all huricanes should be given uber-manly names like Biff or Slugger. Heckyeah!
I wish they would change it. …Away from people names entirely. Maybe name them after appliances. Or insects. Why we have to anthropomorphize everything is beyond me.
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Hmm… To improve the culling, it really needs some kind of storm-chaser phone geo-game to encourage people to get as close as possible.
Hurricane Go?
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And some people say that you can’t see natural selection in action.
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Those are reserved for Typhoons.
Fanapi September 14 – 21, 2010 Typhoon 175 km/h (110 mph) 930 hPa (27.46 inHg) Taiwan, China $893 million 80 [68]
Washi December 13 – 19, 2011 Severe tropical storm 95 km/h (60 mph) 992 hPa (29.29 inHg) Micronesia, Palau, Philippines $97.8 million 1,268 [69][70]
Vicente July 18 – 25, 2012 Typhoon 150 km/h (90 mph) 950 hPa (28.05 inHg) Philippines, China
Vietnam, Laos, Burma $329 million 15
Bopha November 25 – December 9, 2012 Typhoon 185 km/h (115 mph) 930 hPa (27.46 inHg) Micronesia, Philippines $1.04 billion 1,146
Sonamu January 1 – 10, 2013 Severe tropical storm 95 km/h (60 mph) 990 hPa (29.23 inHg) Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia Minimal 2 [71][72]
Utor August 8 – 18, 2013 Typhoon 195 km/h (120 mph) 925 hPa (27.32 inHg) Philippines, China $2.6 billion 97 [73][74][75]
Fitow September 29 – October 7, 2013 Typhoon 140 km/h (85 mph) 960 hPa (28.35 inHg) China, Taiwan, Japan $10.4 billion 12 [73]
Haiyan November 3 – 11, 2013 Typhoon 230 km/h (145 mph) 895 hPa (26.43 inHg) Palau, Philippines, Vietnam, China $2.86 billion 6,340 [73][76]
Rammasun July 9 – 20, 2014 Typhoon 165 km/h (105 mph) 935 hPa (27.61 inHg) Philippines, China, Vietnam $7.13 billion 195 [77][78][79]
Soudelor July 29 – August 11, 2015 Typhoon 215 km/h (130 mph) 900 hPa (26.58 inHg) Mariana Islands, Japan, Taiwan, China $3.72 billion 40 [80]
Mujigae September 30 – October 5, 2015 Typhoon 155 km/h (100 mph) 950 hPa (28.05 inHg) Philippines, China $4.13 billion 29 [80]
Koppu October 12 – 21, 2015 Typhoon 185 km/h (115 mph) 925 hPa (27.32 inHg) Philippines $236 million 58 [80]
Melor December 9 – 17, 2015 Typhoon 175 km/h (110 mph) 935 hPa (27.61 inHg) Philippines $136 million 42 [80]
Meranti September 9 – 16, 2016 Typhoon 220 km/h (140 mph) 890 hPa (26.28 inHg) Philippines, Taiwan, China $2.63 billion 30
Sarika October 13 – 19, 2016 Typhoon 175 km/h (110 mph) 935 hPa (27.61 inHg) Philippines, China, Vietnam $757 million 36
Haima October 14 – 22, 2016 Typhoon 215 km/h (130 mph) 900 hPa (26.58 inHg) Philippines, Taiwan, China $1.93 billion 20
Nock-ten December 20 – 28, 2016 Typhoon 195 km/h (120 mph) 915 hPa (27.02 inHg) Philippines $104 million 8
17 Names References:[nb 1][nb 3][nb 7][nb 7][nb 8] $39 billion 9,418
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The study acknowledged that male names weren’t used until 1979. There are participants studies to assess perceived threat based on male-female names in this paper beyond the stats.
US hurricanes used to be given only female names, a practice that meteorologists of a different era considered appropriate due to such characteristics of hurricanes as unpredictability (17). This practice came to an end in the late 1970s with increasing societal awareness of sexism, and an alternating male-female naming system was adopted
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Seriously. I see no need to rectify this situation.
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You gotta give the female storms some credit, though. For taking out The Trash. 
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isn’t exactly accurate, either. it’s a lot more than that.
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Wait, if I can’t trust that number, how can I trust their study?
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Some of these people are likely to be women. I have known my share of women who held chauvinist beliefs. If you are including them, well and good I suppose, just wanted to point out that not just men are chauvinists.
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Katrina and Audrey were removed from the dataset as outliers. The author noted that.
Retaining the outliers leads to a poor model fit due to overdispersion. It should be noted that these hurricanes have feminine names.
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The death toll since 1950: 50 deaths from female storms compared to 23 from male storms.
Wait just a second. When did they start using masculine names? Well after 1950, I’m sure. Could we normalize those statistics on a per-storm basis, or am I just a stooge of the patriarchy?
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Too bad that the “study” is junk: https://scatter.wordpress.com/2014/06/03/my-thoughts-on-that-hurricane-study/
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isn’t it just more likely that the female of the species is far deadlier than the male?
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For some reason, my eye was drawn to the “2014” in the critique’s url. And then I see that the PNAS article was published in “2014”. And the Washington Post article is also from “2014”…Why is it relevant now?
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