[Chanticleer]

It just won't end!

[Chanticleer]

NautiNurse

[RightWhale]

Fortunately for the plan, zeta is not the last letter of the Greek alphabet.

[The_Republican]

Don't worry, Zorro would come to the rescue!

[manwiththehands]

Catherine Zeta ... oh, sorry.

[ThanhPhero]

It is only recently that storms such as this one would even be noticed. A lot of the "intensified" storm activity is that we are seeing all of them now instead of just the ones that get in our way and we are measuring wind speeds now that we couldn't measure before. I remember when the top windspeed for a hurricane was "in excess of {about} 115 mph" because that's the speed at which the instruments blew away. Not too many years ago occasionally a storm would hit land somewhere as a surprise. Much of the increased (global warming, of course) storm activity is just that we see more of them.

[Joe Brower]

Y'know, after two seasons, I'm just sort of ambivalent about these damned storms. I've done my best to think it through as to where I live, what I live in, height above sea level, etc., etc., and have storm prep that on paper will see me through a CAT 5. With luck, I'll never find out. You watch these things, prepare based on how close it's coming at you, and wait.

If my area gets blasted, the first thing I'll be doing is buying real estate.

[libstripper]

Is her first name Catherine and her last name Jones?

[upchuck]

Global warming* - we're DOOMED!

*Which, of course, is President Bush's fault.

[isawitonline]

From the blog Philadelphia Weather:

http://philadelphiaweather.blogspot.com/2005/12/zeta-genesis.html

Years that featured December tropical or subtropical development since 1950 in the Atlantic Basin:

1953 -- TS 14
1954 -- Hurricane Alice #2
1975 -- STS #2
1984 -- Hurricane Lili
2003 -- TS Odette
2003 -- TS Peter
2005 -- TS Zeta

Hurricane Alice formed on December 30th and continued into early January of 1955. Zeta and Alice share the latest formation date in history in the Atlantic basin.