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Running out of Hurricane Names
fm6 writes "LiveScience is reporting that the 21 names reserved for tropical storms and hurricanes in Atlantic Basic are almost used up. If there are more than 21 storms, they'll start using the Greek alphabet. The most storms ever recorded was 21 in 1933, before they started giving them official names. The connection between this record-breaking storm year and global warming remains controversial."
Use the Chinese alphabet. If you have a year where you run out, it's all just one big hurricane.
They can't get a baby book out and look up a few more names? They didn't even get a name for ever letter of the alphabet?! What are we paying them for!!?
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The Greek thing may not be the best idea... after the big storms the US has endured so far, I doubt anyone would bee looking forward to HURRICANE OMEGA.
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This is the beginning of the apocalypse .....
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These will be a hit with techies...
"That hurricane isn't ready for release."
"Why not?"
"Because it's Beta!"
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Oh Lordy it's rainin, must be global warming!
Oh Lordy it's snowin, must be global warming!
Oh Lordy a TORNADO! We never had those before global warming!
A WHOLE CITY FLOODED BY A HURRICANE! ACK! That surely couldn't happen without global warming!
For the love, what a bunch of fear-mongering horse shit.
"the organization adopted a rotating series of women's names" ...
I always wondered why they give them nice polite names.
I think "Hurricane Bastard" or "Hurricane Stalin" would be more appropriate .
Just name them after real scum bags
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...that there was global warming in 1933?
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Is there a correlation between Hurricane Alpha or Hurricane Beta and the number of mosquitos left by any flooding?
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> What's the point in using the Greek alphabet, since all the US media is going to use English/Roman letters to report the names?
I suppose they could use numerals: 0liver, 1ouanne, 2ebulun, 3lizabeth, 4arry, 5andy, 6ob, 7erri, 8???, 9ale, 10uis,
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I think we need to start letting corporations sponsor hurricanes. In exchange for getting their name on a hurricane (and thus in the press), they'll pick up 50% of the damanages.
Just think: Pepsi Presentes Hurricane Melvin. Hurricane Ashlee: A Joint Venture of Wal-Mart, Google, and Dell.
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>>number of cat 4 and 5 hurricanes has nearly doubled in the last 30 years due to rising water temperatures
as you may not know there is also a correlation about the rising water temperatures, there are less pirates now. please see the reference http://www.venganza.org/
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From TFA: q, u, x, y and z are not used
I, for one, welcome our new freak hurricanes, QueerAsAThreeDollarBill, Uvula, XenaWarriorPrincess, Yoohoo, and Zipadeedoodah.
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How about using the AOL screen name generator?
We're sorry, the name "Hurricane Sam" is taken. How about "Hurricane TNBabe2348"?
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Chinese zoologists report a surge in native butterfly populations unseen since 1933.
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If hurricaines were to have corporate sponsored names, the names could be assigned to storms based on how much devistation they are expected to cause, and people would be able to relate to it! Forget these "categories".
Just think about it, hurricaine "Bob's Used Exercise Equipment" wouldn't be that big of a deal, but people would be fleeing their asses out of town once hurricaine "RIAA" or hurricaine "Microsoft" was being warned for!
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It doesn't matter - the apparent increase is due to the decline in the number of pirates since the 1800s. http://www.venganza.org/
Oh man, it would have been so great to have news organizations playing Shatner during all of the broadcast intros if the most recent one was Hurricane KHAAAAAAAN!
Who's going to take a hurricane named Katrina or Ophelia seriously? Here are some hurricane names that might get people's attention to get out of dodge:
- Osama
- Saddam
- Adolf
- Lucifer
- Vader
Hurricane Report:
Tropical depression #36 has increased in intensity to a tropical storm with maximum sustained windspeeds of 49 miles, and has been named tropical storm Pi. Its eye wall has circularized surprisingly early, and the storm is expected to gain strength as it squares the radial islands of the Florida Keys.
Hurricane Delta continues to change latitude, longitude, pressure, and windspeeds in the west, Atlantic, with d-la=-1.3, d-lo=0.2, d-p=-15 mbar, and d-w=15 mph. This is quite the contrast to last year's hurricane Iota, which refused to change much at all. It is recommended that all residents in the eastern Carribean continue to plot the course of this dangerous storm carefully, as all of this data is subject to change.
Hurricane Beta has been downgraded to tropical storm beta as it decays over the North Atlantic. Beta caused quite a scare after it formed from the reminants of the collision of tropical storm alpha and the eastern antilles, but has passed harmlessly through open water ever since it was spawned.
Tropical storm Lambda continues to redefine itself as it disintigrates now that it has moved inland from the Texas gulf cost. A category 5 hurricane on impact, it left a swath of destruction as a void in its wake. After making landfall, it took a break before continuing for n>3 days across the continental United States. The variable number of refugees that fled in advance of the hurricane are not expected to return any time soon; garbage collection must be done and the environment cleaned up first.
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The increase in hurricanes is not due to the increase in global temperatures, rather, it is due to a decrease in the number of pirates.
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Since hurricanes mostly hit Southern states anyway, start using two names after we use up all the
single names for the year. By October we'll get hurricanes like Bubba Earl, Ellie Mae, Joe Bob, etc.
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I hold that Vikings were Pirates, and therefore we're all doomed.
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man: no entry for woman in the manual.
"Qua!?"
Unfortunately I can't repeat them in public.
They're the names I call the lovely girls in my life.
They swoop in, there's lots of dampness and blowing at first, but when they leave, they take the house.
corporate sponsorship!
Imagine it. A huge fund is started where the winning bid for each hurricane's name is deposited, and this is what we dip into to pick up the pieces afterward!
This way when Citigroup takes your house, it's because it cleaned it off it's foundation into the Gulf of Mexico!
But really, there will be such heavy bidding for the Category Fives so that every talking-head will be saying "remember this relief effort is brought to you by Walmart."
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I suggest outsourcing the naming to India, and at a much lower cost.
Hurricane Punjab
Hurricane Krishna
Hurricane Patel
etc...