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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Siegfried: [QB] As Jay said, the hurricane season ends today for the Atlantic basin. Something that should be pointed out is that the activity of hurricane seasons goes through a cycle of periods of high activity and periods of low activity with the periods running about 30 to 40 years. The last most active hurricane season prior to this one was in 1933, which was in the middle of a period of high activity. That period also gave us the the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane, which is the most powerful hurricane on record to make landfall in the US and the third most intense Atlantic storm ever. We're in the middle of a high activity period right now, and we have been for a while. 1995 is the third most active hurricane season on record for the Atlantic. This season has been truly horrendous, there's no mistake about that. [QUOTE]As it stands now, they have sets of names they use, and if a large enough hurricane occurs (like Katrina), that name is retired. Once they use up all those names and get into the Greek letters, those can't really be retired.[/QUOTE]I'm not sure I'm understanding you. When a name is retired from the hurricane name list, another name with the same letter and same gender is inserted into that name's spot on the rotation. As long as there are 500-page baby name books, I doubt we'll run out of names to call these storms. For example, Hurricane Alicia hit Houston in 1983 and was retired from the name list. Allison took it's place and was used in 1989 and 1995 before being retired in 2001 after hitting Houston again. Allison's name has been replaced with Andrea, which will first pop up in 2007 (time to start a betting pool to see if Houston is the reason Andrea gets retired). If anything, the NHC ought to reconsider using names starting with either Q, U, X, Y, or Z to the name list. In 1985, the North Pacific naming scheme added names starting with X, Y, and Z to its list. It still doesn't Q and U, though. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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