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We all know the names Andrew, Gustav, Hugo, Katrina and Rita. All are tropical storms that have had devastating effects on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States.

The official naming convention of tropical storms was started during World War II by the National Weather Service, inspired by the novel "Storm" by George R. Stewart in which he named his title character "Maria" (as in "They call the wind Maria"). But the NWS was not the first to name hurricanes.

That distinction goes to Clement Lindley Wragge (1852-1922), an English meteorologist who settled in Australia in 1887. As the appointed Government Meteorologist for Queensland, Mr. Wragge introduced the practice of naming cyclones using letters of the Greek alphabet, mythological characters and feminine names. But when the biggest storms hit, the ones he described as "whooping around and making a nuisance of itself," his wicked and eccentric sense of humor would show. These were the storms that Clement Wragge would name after the politicians he disliked.

When it came to naming hurricanes, Clement Wragge was kind of like an elephant; he went just about anywhere he pleased.