Hey there, I'm Bethany Van Delft and this is the 10 News, the show where in the time it takes to gather up all the loose change around your house, we find out what's up in the world.

In today's episode, we'll get acquainted with storms by their names, find out why quarters are currently hard to come by, visit an aquarium that may change in a pretty

unexpected way, and find out what very unusual artifact was recently sold at auction for a whopping

$31.8 million. Stick around till the end of the 10 to find out.

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This year's hurricane season has been stormier than usual, producing a record number of named storms. So, what's the deal

in named storms anyway? Let's go to Friends of the Ten, Lane Farber from the Nature and Earth's

podcast for an explanation. Kyle, Laura, Marco, Nana, and Omar.

These are just a few of the many named storms which have formed in the Atlantic Ocean this very busy hurricane season.

That's right.

Hurricanes have names just like you and me.

Meteorologists, aka the scientists who study weather, name hurricanes

for the same reason people have names. Simplicity. Imagine if you didn't have a name. Your teacher

would just call you, that kid over there. It works the same way for storms. Instead of saying

that storm over there, scientists give the storm a name.

It makes things so much easier.

It's important for meteorologists to be able to identify and talk about storms in the easiest

way possible, because storms can be very dangerous.

The most powerful and dangerous storms we have in the United

States are called hurricanes. Hurricanes are massive swirling storms of wind and rain that form

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