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W: The Final Name in Hurricanes

posted by Zed on September 13 2005 22:54

The World Meteorological Association’s official hurricane nomenclature has 21 names per year prepared in advance — one for each letter of the alphabet from A through W, omitting Q and U.

If we ever run out in a given year, the plan is to move on to the names of the 24 letters of the Greek alphabet.

Let’s hope we never see Hurricane Omega.

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Comments

If I run out of causes, I shall keep that of Hurricane Quincy and Hurricane Uthor in mind.

Posted by Gary Farber on September 18 2005 09:05

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