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Tropical Storm Alpha Sets Naming Record
vekron writes "Tropical Storm Alpha formed Saturday in the Caribbean, setting the record for the most named storms in an Atlantic hurricane season. This is the first time the U.S National Hurricane Center has resorted to using the Greek alphabet since it began naming tropical cyclones in 1953. The previous record of 21 named storms had stood since 1933. Alpha was the 22nd to reach tropical storm strength this year, and the season doesn't end until November 30. At 8 p.m. EDT, Alpha was 70 miles south of Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic. Tropical storm warnings have been posted for the entire coastline of the Dominican Republic and Haiti and for the southeastern Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands. The storm is moving northwest at about 15 mph with winds at the center of 40 mph and is expected to make landfall late Saturday or early Sunday. The National Hurricane Center is tracking this storm; it is offering updates about its development as an RSS feed."
If you start spouting off about global warming now, on either side, Zonk wins.
They can't come up with names beginning with X, Y, and Z.
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When VCR's are outlawed, only outlaws will have VCR's.
Hurricane Balki has a nice ring to it, although of course he's Miposian, not Greek. Following that of course, would be Hurricane Cousinlarry.
... because we're going to need that money to pay for all the storm damage we've been getting lately...
Quidquid Latine dictum sit, altum videtur (anything said in Latin sounds important)
They name storms and hurricanes after women because when they come, they're loud and wet, and when they leave, they take your house and car.
Like all forms of suffering, you can just play the "Mysterious Ways" trump card, and be instantly absolved of explaining why a being that is supposedly omniscient, omnipotent and benevolent permits suffering to happen.
The obvious logical explanation is that either there is no such being ; either it is absent or a supernatural sentience does exist, but lacks at least one of those three qualities (i.e. it doesn't know, can't do anything about it or doesn't care).
Of course, logical arguments are usually countered with the "La-la-la, I'm not listening." move or the "Repeat my viewpoint over and over again in lieu of actually providing a chain of logic" tactic.
You could proabably make a trading card game based on this ... "Atheists vs <insert most culturally appropriate religion here>". Heck, you could have different sets of booster packs for each religion. I hereby patent this idea!
"Theology : The Blathering"
I hope hurricane Beta is extremely powerful. Then I can say "Wow... That Hurricane must have been really buggy..."
Show this to your friends and family that don't know what a real hacker is
I am sure those who had children with the names of hurricanes aren't too happy about it.
The millions of us named Andrew have trouble sleeping every night.
What?
They should just number them
Well, I'm just glad that you can come here to 66.35.250.151 and post your comments! I mean, the 66.35.250.151 crowd will definitely know where you're coming from. I was about to wish you'd mentioned a couple of other web sites in your discussion of the non-naming of Japanese storms, but it's just as well, since we wouldn't want those sites to get 66.35.250.151'ed.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Keep in mind that the records only go back to the early 1900s when the hall of records was mysteriously blown away.
Why is anything anything?
Hurricane Pepsi has strengthened to a "category 5 delicous" and is expected to be refreshing residents of the Florida coast by early Tuesday morning.
Height: 38U, Weight: 0 Newtons, Eyes: #0000FF, OS: Gray Matter 1.0 (Alpha)
Why are storm names female?
They scream when they're coming and take your house when they leave.
"You're everywhere. You're omnivorous."
Epsilon won't be particularly destructive. It'll be tiny.
I hate the one hundred and twenty character limit for signatures with an all-enveloping, all-destroying, incredible pass
I wonder how GWB's stance on emissions would be affected if a storm were to dismantle his ranch in Crawford?
The "Axis of Evil" would become Iraq, Iran, North Korea, and Mother Nature. (Mother Nature would come after North Korea because that's the order in which he would actually do anything about them.)
Downmodding is the refuge of the weak. Don't downmod, make a better argument!
"Why are storm names female?"
Back in the day when hurricanes really were given exclusively female names, the common answer was because there's so such thing as a HIMicane.
Sitting in my day care, the art is decopainted.
I hope so.
I've got this nagging leprosy thing he could help with. After that, if he's really such a nice guy, maybe he'll clean my gutters.