Wilma Ties Named Storms since 1933

[125gJoe]

Where's Wilma going.. And who came up with that name??

 

[sumthin fishy]

I recently read an article about how storms were nammed, I'll try n find it. Origionally they used only female names, then the womans rights activists said it was sexist, so they changed it to an alternating pattern of male/female. The names are set according to the alphabet, and are not changed unless a storm was "big" enough to be remembered. (E.g. Andrew, obviously Katrina will be retired at the years end.) Also, if the names run to the end of the alphabet, which is likely to happen this year, they go to using the letters of the greek alphabet. "Tropical storm Beta" he he, MQP your dagon fish are destructive.

 

[sumthin fishy]

Ok so q, u, x, y, and z are not used, so we will be in the Greek alphabet if there is one more storm. here is a list of the names for 2005
Arlene
Bret
Cindy
Dennis
Emily
Franklin
Gert
Harvey
Irene
Jose
Katrina
Lee
Maria
Nate
Ophelia
Philippe
Rita
Stan
Tammy
Vince
Wilma
heres the link
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/general/lib/reason.html

 

[125gJoe]

Strange...

I've never met a woman named Wilma, until today! She complained that others were making fun of her and giving her "crossed fingers".. ..telling her to stay away.. All in sarcastic fun, of course..

 

[flyingfish]

Yeah, just think how women with the name Katrina feel. One person I know actually mouthed off about Katrina after it crossed Florida saying how nothing with her name could be destructive. That was before it hit the Gulf coast. She hasn't spoken as much since.(that's impressive for her)