I'm a young Fugudy, your friendly guide to the English language.

We talk about writing, history, rules, and cool stuff.

Today, we'll talk about how hurricanes get their names, and we'll talk about using contractions

in your writing.

2020 has been a challenging year, to say the least.

We don't know what the second half will bring.

The way things are going, it could be Godzilla, it could be aliens, maybe we'll be lucky

and it'll just be hurricanes.

In fact, we're smack in the middle of hurricanes season in the United States.

It runs from July to September in the Northern Hemisphere, and January to March in the Southern

Hemisphere.

With that in mind, we started thinking about how hurricanes and other storms get their names.

First of all, hurricanes themselves are called different things in different parts of

the world.

When they form in the North Atlantic and Eastern North Pacific, they're called hurricanes.

If they form in the Western North Pacific near China, Japan, and the Philippines, they're

called typhoons.

And if they form in the Western South Pacific or Indian Ocean, they're called tropical

cyclones.

Regardless of the name, they're all the same, spinning storms that start over tropical

waters.

They have high winds of 74 miles per hour or more, heavy rain and storm surges.

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