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Running out of Hurricane Names

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday September 20, 2005 @05:07AM from the still-waiting-for-hurricane-taco dept.

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."

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first post by Anonymous Coward · 2005-09-20 05:10 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Hurricane AC gets first post?
Lame topic by Anonymous Coward · 2005-09-20 05:16 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Hurricane names??!! Why submit a lame story on hurricane names when you could have read about the world's smallest robot?
Re:What? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-09-20 06:21 · Score: -1, Offtopic

how fucking dare you taint the best comeback ever with that soviet russia crap. fucking despicible.