What is the list of Hawaiian storm names?
Case Detail: Most of the storms we hear about have English names, but some of the biggest ones to hit Hawaii have had Hawaiian names. Why is that? What is the list of Hawaiian storm names?
Traditionally, hurricanes (or tropical cyclones) are given names from a set list in alphabetical sequence. These lists usually change every year, and are different depending on region (for example, Arlene, Bret, Cindy, and Dennis start the 2005 list for the Atlantic). More importantly, names that are given to storms when they first form stay with them, even if they cross into another region. Most of the storms that catch the eye of weather watchers in Hawaii actually form in the Eastern Pacific, then move toward the islands. This region is monitored by the National Hurricane Center in Miami, and that\'s where those names come from. So some of the major storms to threaten Hawaii in the summer of 2005 have been named Jova, Kenneth, Lidia and Max. For a storm to receive a Hawaiian name, it must form in the Central North Pacific region, where it will be monitored and named by the Central Pacific Hurricane Center. This region
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