[Sam Cree]

Dog used to be D in the phonetic alphabet.
I guess that was used to designate hurricanes at one time.
It's Delta now, as I guess everyone knows.

[Dog Gone]

That seems a likely explanation.

If I ran the NHC or whomever gets to assign names to future storms, I'd be a lot more creative. How better to raise public awareness than to warn about Hurricane Gonorrhea? Hurricane Herpes?

I could go on. ;-)

[Chemist_Geek]

There are a bunch of different phonetic alphabets running around out there. ICAO (the one most of us know; Alfa-Bravo-Charlie), the police's (David-King-George), the old WWII (Abel-Baker-Charlie-Dog)...