Have you ever wondered how those big ocean called hurricanes or typhoons get their names? Who decides to ame a hurricane "Ann" or "Barbara" or "Bill"? The way hurricanes and typhones are named has changed over the years, and it is an interesting story. Originally, weather forecasters described them by their position in degrees of lattitude and longitude [?] a typhoon might be called "21.20 north, 157.52 west". [?], this method was cofusing because storms do not stay in the same place [?] people developed other ways to identify them. In the Caribian Sea, hurricanes were named for the Catholic saint's days [?] a hurricane that struck an island in the Caribbiean on Saint Ann's Day was named "Santa Ana." A weather forecaster in Australia used to name typhoons after politicians whom he disliked [?] he wanted to make weather forecasts such as "Typhoon Smith is on a very destructive path" or "Typhoon jones is very weak and is not moving in any direction."