Hurricane Jeanne
While schadenfreude against Texas and Florida could be fun, red and blue Americans must unite to say that it's enough; no more hurricanes.
What is it, FOUR, against Florida so far? And the season ends in November! (2nd?)
And because the names are the most trivia intensive part of the hurricane season, according to the government site: Worldwide Tropical Cyclone Names:
Since 1953, Atlantic tropical storms have been named from lists originated by the National Hurricane Center and now maintained and updated by an international committee of the World Meteorological Organization. The lists featured only women's names until 1979, when men's and women's names were alternated. Six lists are used in rotation. Thus, the 2004 list will be used again in 2010. Here is more information on the history of naming hurricanes.
The only time that there is a change in the list is if a storm is so deadly or costly that the future use of its name on a different storm would be inappropriate for reasons of sensitivity. If that occurs, then at an annual meeting by the WMO committee (called primarily to discuss many other issues) the offending name is stricken from the list and another name is selected to replace it.
What is it, FOUR, against Florida so far? And the season ends in November! (2nd?)
And because the names are the most trivia intensive part of the hurricane season, according to the government site: Worldwide Tropical Cyclone Names:
Since 1953, Atlantic tropical storms have been named from lists originated by the National Hurricane Center and now maintained and updated by an international committee of the World Meteorological Organization. The lists featured only women's names until 1979, when men's and women's names were alternated. Six lists are used in rotation. Thus, the 2004 list will be used again in 2010. Here is more information on the history of naming hurricanes.
The only time that there is a change in the list is if a storm is so deadly or costly that the future use of its name on a different storm would be inappropriate for reasons of sensitivity. If that occurs, then at an annual meeting by the WMO committee (called primarily to discuss many other issues) the offending name is stricken from the list and another name is selected to replace it.
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