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Almost Out of 'Cane Names. Then Comes...

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#1 of 7 Posted 9/23/05 8:53 AM

From Cathy Posts 2 Last 9/23/05
To All [Msg # 14272.1 ]

Have you ever been caught in a hurricane or tropical storm? Share your personal story!

Almost Out of 'Cane Names. Then Comes...

...Greek. Each year the World Meteorological Organization, an agency of the United Nations, creates a list of 21 names to use for possible hurricanes in the Atlantic Basin. They are arranged alphabetically. The letters q, u, x, y and z are skipped because there are not enough potential names beginning with these letters to use year after year. Rita is the 17th named storm of 2005. That means there are only four names left and hurricane season continues until November. What will we do if we run out of names? Go Greek.

"We go to the Greek alphabet," said Frank Lepore, spokesman for the National Hurricane Center, told LiveScience.com. That provides 24 additional names from Alpha to Omega. In August, the National Hurricane Center updated its forecast for the number of named storms this year to a range of 18 to 21. The year with the most storms on record was 1933 with 21 in the Atlantic Basin; hurricanes were not given names at this time.

Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center, told a congressional committee on Tuesday that he believes the increased number of Atlantic hurricanes is part of a natural cycle, paralleling a similar increase that occurred from the 1940s to the 1960s, reports The Associated Press. That ended in 1995. "It's like somebody threw a switch," said Mayfield and the number and power of 'canes increased dramatically. Cities Mayfield thinks are most at risk from a major hurricane are: Houston and Galveston, Texas; Tampa; southern Florida and the Florida Keys; New York City and Long Island; and New England.

Fun facts about hurricane names from LiveScience.com:
--For many centuries in the West Indies, hurricanes were named after the Catholic saint's day on which the storm occurred. On Sept. 13, 1876, Hurricane San Felipe struck Puerto Rico. Fifty years later on the same date, another hurricane hit. That one was named "San Felipe the Second."
--Saints' names were abandoned and instead latitude and longitude positions were adopted, but this proved cumbersome and difficult.
--During World War II, military weather forecasters gave hurricanes women's names.
--In 1950, the World Meteorological Organization started naming storms using the military's radio code. The first such named storm was Hurricane Able.
--Just like the saints' naming convention, there was a very real possibility over the years of more than one powerful storm with the same name making landfall. So in 1953, the WMO started using women's names with the plan to retire the names of significant storms.
--Feminists rallied and eventually convinced the WMO to include men's names, too, so in 1979 the naming list evolved to be boy-girl-boy-girl. French and Spanish names were also added to better reflect the languages of the nations impacted by Caribbean hurricanes. The names are recycled every six years. The names of big storms are retired.

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#2 of 7 Posted 9/23/05 11:28 AM

From rbobandkim Posts 1 Last 9/23/05
To Cathy [Msg # 14272.2 14272.1 ] (Unread)

We made plans to visit a friend in Hollywood Fl. this past Aug. and thinking of moving to Fl. was also on our minds.

My friend called and said he thought we would get a tropical storm while we were there but not to worry nothing more was to go on, well as the story goes we got hit hard, my husband and I have been in Snow storms but they are nothing to this storm, at first we were outside with a few people and the winds began to pick up but nothing to bad and then all at once SHE hit, the power went out and then the rain and wind came, my dewar friend did not have his hurricane cover on his windows because he never thought it would be more than a tropical storm, well as the wind and rain are coming we are trying to get the hurricane covers up, my husband and my friend, Everyone kept telling us WELCOME TO FL.

The hurricane came in fast and was gone just as fast but the after was very unreal, I seen trees up rooted that looked to be over 100 ft. tall and homes taht were in there way as they came down, we were without power for about 3 days, and the beache was just terrible.

Well we aare NOT moving to Fl. it's a nice place to visit but I'll stay in Ohio where we are sfe for the time.

The Hooffstetter's

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#3 of 7 Posted 9/23/05 3:45 PM

From gentlemiant Posts 1 Last 9/23/05
To Cathy [Msg # 14272.3 14272.1 ] (Unread)

I was outside part of the time in "Diane". (1960) When I ran, it was at 45 degrees or less to the ground. I've lived in FL most of my life, and so have been in a few, including Andrew.

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#4 of 7 Posted 9/23/05 5:08 PM

From Frank Neumann Posts 508 Last Nov-18
To gentlemiant [Msg # 14272.4 14272.3 ] (Unread)

>>was outside part of the time in "Diane". (1960)<<

You must mean Donna. Diane was 1955 in North Carolina, followed by the floods in New England.

Frank Neumann

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#5 of 7 Posted 10/19/05 7:45 PM

From pinkbubble928 Posts 1 Last 10/20/05
To Cathy [Msg # 14272.5 14272.1 ] (Unread)

I moved to Alabama when i was 8, from Nevada. I will turn 13 in November. Somehow, when my dad told us we were moving, and told us about how nice Alabama was, he managed to leave out one little fact. Well, I guess it's not that little; hurricanes. Lets just say, going through hurricanes isn't as easy as it looks on television in Nevada. Things were okay up until 2004, when Ivan hit. That was the first major hurricane I have ever been through. We evacuated to Auburn, Alabama, and so did one of my best friends. Our families went out to dinner together that night, and I was crying in the bathroom in Ruby Tuesdays from anxiety. Our house was alright, though. This year we were in California visiting family when Dennis formed. I was scared sick, not knowing how my pets, house, stuff, or friends were. We flew back into New Orleans at 11:00 p.m. the night before it was supposed to hit, and stayed up half the night. Luckily, it swerved. Before Katrina, my brother fell during his birthday party, and split the bit of cartalidge in front of his ear an inch deep and had to get stitches. The next day, we spent the whole day getting ready for Katrina, We live across the Mobile Bay from Mobile, and so we got hit by it, too, but not nearly as bad. The power was out for a few days, we lost one oak tree, and my dad went to help with the search and recscue in New Orleans. He works with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife, and so he has been really busy cleaning up in Biloxi, and has been home only to eat and sleep almost everyday since Katrina. He is a hard worker. Those are my storm stories.

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#6 of 7 Posted 10/20/05 9:17 AM

From Frank Neumann Posts 508 Last Nov-18
To pinkbubble928 [Msg # 14272.6 14272.5 ]

If you are like me, the recollection of memorable natural events will remain with you always.

I remember when I lived in New York such events as the severe extratropical cyclone in Novemeber 1950. My father drove us out to the communities around Jmaica Bay to view all the downed trees and water damage. In late summer of 1953 there was a weeklong severe heat wave. Four of the record highs in late August and early September still exist on the books over fifty years later. In June of 1954 there was a partial eclipse of the sun. Then in August, September and October came hurricanes Carol Edna and Hazel. Hazel set the record for strongest wind ever at the city's Battery Park observation site -- 113 mph. I stood on the side stoop, clutching the railing and watched the maple tree in the back whip around during Hazel's peak gusts -- until my father yanked me back into the house, muttering something about "damned fools."

I was fascinated with the sky and the weather and eventually became a meteorologist. Maybe you, too...

Frank Neumann

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#7 of 7 Posted 10/21/05 3:32 AM

From Arthur Cadoret Posts 264 Last 12:56 AM
To Frank Neumann [Msg # 14272.7 14272.6 ]

That November 1950 storm was one of the items that made me want to work in weather. The wind and rain reached a fierce peak in RI during the late evening hours. I was fascinated by the fact that while we were having torrents of rain with the temperature in the 60's, Pittsburgh was being buried in snow with temperatures in the teens.

Arthur

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