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Originally Posted by dyna mo
they used to use female only, for decades, then switched to male and female names in the 70s.
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And it was only in the early 50's that they were given any official names. Prior to that, the big ones are only remembered by the year and, sometimes, by whatever name the newspapers gave them such as, The Long Island Express of 1938 or The Great Atlantic Hurricane of 1944.
I've spent a lot of summers on the beach in NJ, so this is a subject that's always interested me.