There is no Q (except on Star Trek): hurricane names

[flowomo]

someone was wondering earlier what happened to P and Q in the hurricane list as R(ita) is now everyone's concern. Here is a handy list for those who follow these things:

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml

Atlantic Names
2005
Arlene
Bret
Cindy
Dennis
Emily
Franklin
Gert
Harvey
Irene
Jose
Katrina
Lee
Maria
Nate
Ophelia
Philippe
Rita
Stan
Tammy
Vince
Wilma

2006
Alberto
Beryl
Chris
Debby
Ernesto
Florence
Gordon
Helene
Isaac
Joyce
Kirk
Leslie
Michael
Nadine
Oscar
Patty
Rafael
Sandy
Tony
Valerie
William

2007
Andrea
Barry
Chantal
Dean
Erin
Felix
Gabrielle
Humberto
Ingrid
Jerry
Karen
Lorenzo
Melissa
Noel
Olga
Pablo
Rebekah
Sebastien
Tanya
Van
Wendy

Since 1953, Atlantic tropical storms have been named from lists originated by the National Hurricane Center and now maintained and updated by an international committee of the World Meteorological Organization. The lists featured only women's names until 1979, when men's and women's names were alternated. Six lists are used in rotation. Thus, the 2004 list will be used again in 2010.

[xray s]

1. 2007 Hurricane DEAN!

yyyyeeeeeaaahhh!!!!

[Ladyhawk]

2. What about X, Y and Z? What happens if there are more storms

than names?

[Systematic Chaos]

4. Then they go into the Alpha, Bravo, Charlie list

n/t

[philarq]

3. then its greek letters

In the event that more than 21 named tropical cyclones occur in the Atlantic basin in a season, additional storms will take names from the Greek alphabet: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and so on.

but whats after the greek alphabet?

[Systematic Chaos]

5. Oh, oops....

Greek alphabet? My bad. :)

[Ilsa]

9. Oh. I thought you were kidding. nevermind.

[LeftyMom]

6. Oh great, my name's on there

Not a good move, naming a storm after me, I've got a temper. :scared:

[Ilsa]

7. And sometimes they "retire" names due to their extreme

distruction. My guess is that Katrina will be retired.

[Ilsa]

8. Deleted by myself.

[whistle]

10. Here's why, look at the boys and girls names that begin with "Q"...

Male:
Quentin
Quincy
Quinn
Quinten
Quintin
Quinton

Female:
Queen
Queenie
Quinn

Also here is why there are no "U" names for hurricanes:

Male:
Ulises
Ulysses
Unknown
Urban
Uriah
Uriel


Female:
Una
Unique
Unknown
Ursula

Yep, somebody actually named their baby boy and girl "Unknown"

<link> http://www.thenamemachine.com/list-boys-baby-names/u-1.html

[ulysses]

11. Hurricane Ulysses

I like the sound of that...;-)