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Tropical Storm Zeta Forms in Atlantic

Posted by Zonk on from the dogs-and-cats-living-together-mass-hysteria dept.

APSR writes "Even though the Atlantic hurricane season official ends on November 30th, more storms can form and still count towards the total for the year! According to MSN.com Weather News, Tropical Storm Zeta was formed in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean on December 30th. This storm extends the record-breaking 2005 season to 27 storms, and it's the 6th storm named using the Greek alphabet. According to Wikipedia, Zeta is the latest a tropical cyclone was formed in the Atlantic, forming around 11 AM ET; this dethrones Hurricane Alice of 1954, which formed December 30th around 2 AM ET. The storm itself will continue to strengthen for 12-24 hours, then weaken; it will not likely make landfall." We've already set records this year, as previously reported.

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  1. Re:global warming by AoT · · Score: 0, Troll

    Unfortunately if this is global warming in effect, and I am guessing it is the beginning of it, then it will be quite a while before we are able to mitigate its effects. If we stopped driving, or putting any co2 into the air, right now, we still have the stuff we put up there to deal with. Things are going to get warmer, it is essentially inevitable at this point.

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  2. Re:Stop naming tropical storms... by Saven+Marek · · Score: 0, Troll

    > Is that correct?

    No. You need to go back and learn basic comprehension.

  3. Re:SHIT! by lbrandy · · Score: 0, Troll

    Please, no more storms. Not only are they terribly worrisome, but the bush administration canot even clean up what's already happened.

    It's not Bush's fault you godless heathens struck down Intelligent design. You are about to get Robertson'd.

  4. Who's to blame?!? by Fei_Id · · Score: 0, Troll

    Its Bush's fault!!! Better blame those mudslides in the western US on him too while we're at it!!!