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Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Alternative hurricane naming conventions

This could be the year we run through all the available hurricane names. What would happen then? CNN.com has the answer: "What's a meteorologist to do if the names run out? Go Greek." Now, I'm as fond as anyone of local-news ratings stunts, but I was reassured to read further that "[s]hould the Atlantic see more than 21 named storms 'additional storms will take names from the Greek alphabet: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and so on,' according to the National Hurricane Center Web site."

Interestingly, more names would be available if someone had not decided that "[t]he letters Q, U, X, Y and Z are skipped because not enough names start with those letters." It's interesting because, the last time I checked, Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and so on weren't even names at all. Maybe the omissions are for the best. At least we won't ever have see George Bush Sr. and Bill Clinton stiffly urging us to open our pocketbooks for the victims of Hurricane Queenie.

It's not too late to consider alternative hurricane naming conventions:
  • French names: e.g., Hurricane Jacques. You know certain people in the government would like that.

  • Arabic names: e.g., Hurricane Khalid. You know certain people in the government would really like that.

  • Internet chat-room slang: e.g., Hurricane LOL, Hurricane WTF, Hurricane NFW


posted at 12:21 AM

1 Comments:

Blogger MWR said...

I meant French or Arabic names, exclusively, right down the line.

September 21, 2005 11:22 AM  

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