I heard today that the current prediction is 4 more named storms including one more hurricane. It's a month after the anniversary of Katrina. Are we up to K yet? I don't know, not much mention of this on the news.

William Gray says two more tropical storms and one hurricane (not major)

And no, we're only up to 'Isaac'.

Do they start back over at A every year?

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Ninerfan1 Wrote:Do they start back over at A every year?

Yes.

Quote:In the 1953 Atlantic season, the Center began naming storms which reach tropical storm intensity with human names. This replaced a 3-year plan (involving the 1950, 1951, and 1952 hurricane seasons) to name storms using the phonetic alphabet, which changed in 1952. Previous to these systems, tropical storms were either referred to by map coordinates for identification, or assigned names in more random methods such as by saint's days or location of previous impacts. Initially, storms only had female names, but after some protest, male and female names were alternated beginning in the 1979 Atlantic season.

The World Meteorological Organization now creates and maintains the annual lists. Names are used on a six-year rotation. The deadliest or most notable storms have their names retired from the rotation. In the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season, Kirk replaced Keith, which was retired in 2001 following its effects during the 2000 Atlantic hurricane season, while in the Eastern Pacific, no storms from 2000 were retired and thus all the names used in 2000 will be reused for the 2006 season. The 2006 lists will be used again in 2012, except for any names that are retired before then.

If there are more than 21 named storms in any given Atlantic season or 24 in an Eastern Pacific season, storms will be named for the letters of the Greek alphabet, starting with Alpha and following the list in order. Greek letters were used for the first time in the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season and have yet to be used in the Eastern Pacific ocean.

From Wikipedia