The first Western Australian named cyclone was Bessie that formed on 6 January 1964.

Feminine names cyclones. He is followed by. In the early 1900s feminine names were given to cyclones while the male names were inducted from 1979. It was followed by VINCE named on the same day off NW Australia then by ZELIA which was named on 14 January in the Coral Sea.

There are several such lists of names. N the beginning the cyclone were named arbitrarily. They cycle through alphabetically and alternate by gender.

By World War II cyclone names Able. That year the United States began using female names for storms. In general tropical cyclones are named according to the rules atregional level.

The practice of naming hurricanes solely after women came to an end in 1978 when mens and womens names were included in the Eastern North Pacific storm lists. The BOM currently has a list of 104 names that will be used to name cyclones for the next 10 years. The convention of naming Australian tropical cyclones began in 1964.

There have been several cyclones named Clara in the north of Australia. You can check out the list here my personal favourites include Wallace Iggy and Ferdinand. Clara is the feminine form of the Roman name Clarus meaning bright clear famous.

He spoke of names in literature and mythology. Except for one all names by Pakistan are interestingly feminine like Nargis given to a cyclone that hit Bangladesh some time ago Nilam Vardah Titli and Bulbul. There are five allotted naming cycles that cyclones work through 104 names in total.