Posted on 11/29/2005 7:16:12 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
Storm #28 forms: Epsilon
11/30/2005 at midnight........
Now THAT would be appropriate.
I'll really start worrying when we get to Omega.
What will we use, Esperanto? :-)
Then we use the Cryllic alphabet.....How do yu make a backwards R?...........
He didn't spend enough time on it, but there is some kind of concept of what constitutes "sustained" winds which is apparently not as simple as it sounds.
And then come the playoffs.
LOL! Katrina is seeded number 1 and gets a first round bye.
Tropical Storm Bleeeeep.
Then they would be illegal hurricanes and must be deported at once........or given GUEST HURRICANE STATUS!........
The COLTS will beat ANYBODY, even KATRINA!!!.........
Hurricane Alberto will be the first storm named after 1 January 2006. Until then, we will continue with this year's list, which is of course the Greek alphabet now.
Good question. Hurricane season officially starts June 1. However, an Atlantic storm formed in April 2003 was named Ana.
What you said!
This is hard to believe. Enough already.
thats very well possible. this storm was a non-tropical storm at a mid-latitude, the same as delta and vince earlier in the year. they started taking on a small bit of warmth in their core which would indicate a small bit of tropical development but overall a non-tropical system. i question these official names as well.
thats not true at all. you can have a storm with winds of hurricane force yet be non-tropical. in order for a storm to be considered a tropical storm, it must have a warm core and be gathering its energy from a warm source, aka the warm water.
In the sense that prior to aircraft reconnaisance beginning in the 50s, and satellite images prior to the early 60s, there are some storms that are named now would have been "missed" completely, there's a grain of truth to it.
In the sense there's some sort of deliberate conspiracy to inflate the total number of named storms, it's ridiculous nonsense. I've never seen evidence of that. There's a wide variety of idiots who regularly bash NHC for either not naming storms early enough, or naming them too early; that there seems to be an equal number of both suggests that NHC is generally correct.
Oh! Good!!!!
At the rate we're going, Alberto should be named by about January 2.
It may come down to refinements in measurement technology.
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