Uh, if you spew nonsense, you're gonna get called on it. If you state an opinion and it's wrong, don't whine about it.
Tropical storms HAD numbers after them, Hurricanes were named! It hasn't been until the last fifteen years or so that they started naming tropical storms.
Wrong. From 1970:
1.1 Hurricane Alma
1.2 Tropical Storm Becky
1.3 Hurricane Celia
1.4 Tropical Storm Four
1.5 Tropical Storm Dorothy
1.6 Hurricane Ella
1.7 Tropical Storm Felice
1.8 Tropical Storm Greta
1.9 Hurricane Nine
1.10 Hurricane Ten
Some tropical storms were named, some were numbered - as were hurricanes. The shift away from numbering has more to do with improved ability to track systems in real-time instead of from ship reports that might not be available for systems well out to sea. Has nothing to do with attempts to portray global warming - the lead hurricane forecaster, Dr. Grey, is a prominent AGW skeptic.
I'm sorry, I won't ever post on your stupid hurricane post ever again.
Thank you for raising the IQ of this hurricane thread above stupid by leaving it.
Get your facts straight---unless you want to argue that 1968 is only in the last fifteen years or so:
1968 Hurricane Season
Hurricane Abby
Hurricane Brenda
Tropical Storm Candy
Hurricane Dolly
Tropical Depression Eleven
Tropical Depression Fourteen
Tropical Storm Edna
Subtropical Storm One
Tropical Storm Frances
Tropical Depression Eighteen
Hurricane Gladys
Tropical Depression Twenty-One