With Fiona, Gaston, Hermine and Ian all swirling simultaneously on Saturday, the Atlantic Basin might have been mistaken for a bowl of alphabet soup. The unusual outbreak of tropical cyclones — all the more jarring given the relative quiet of the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season — spoke to why those things have names. As the National Hurricane Center and the World Meteorological Organization explain, affixing names makes things simpler for keeping track, beating the hay out of using something clunkier, such as, say, longitude-latitude coordinates. Names are especially valuable when multiple stor…