Three Hurricanes
It's a official: there are three hurricanes in the Atlantic. Since Katrina made landfall, Lee has come and gone. Maria is a hurricane but is a concern only for ships. Nate brushed Bermuda and is headed northeast. Ophelia, however, is whipping the coast of Florida. Right now, she's just sitting there, slowly building stength. She could head north to the Carolinas. She could cross over Florida and into the Gulf (though hopefully not). Or she could head out to sea. I think she's trying too hard to act like her namesake, unpredictable and crazy.
By the way, we'll soon reach the midpoint of hurricane season, but there are only 6 names left on the list for the year. I have no idea what they'll do if they run out of names.
"The sky turned a deep shade of blue and the clouds coalesced to form a chilling message: 'Fatal Error 00000003034324: Stack overflow.'"
By the way, we'll soon reach the midpoint of hurricane season, but there are only 6 names left on the list for the year. I have no idea what they'll do if they run out of names.
"The sky turned a deep shade of blue and the clouds coalesced to form a chilling message: 'Fatal Error 00000003034324: Stack overflow.'"
posted by SpakKadi at 7:20 PM
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"By the way, we'll soon reach the midpoint of hurricane season, but there are only 6 names left on the list for the year. I have no idea what they'll do if they run out of names."
See this:
"If there were more storms after this year’s “W” storm, the Hurricane Center would move to a backup plan it’s never used : The Greek alphabet. That means the next five named storms would be Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon."
One of the bloggers on Weather Underground mentioned the Greek alphabet, but I thought he was joking. Apparently not.
But then, what happens if they have to retire a Greek letter?
Then they'll have fewer Greek letters for the next year.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think your real question is "What if we have a string of exceptionally bad years for hurricanes so that by retiring Greek letters we run out of Greek letters too?"
I don't know. Monotype Corsiva, maybe?
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