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Sorry to say another big hurricane looks to be bearing down on Florida...so all our Florida folks take care of yourselves and keep us posted when you can.
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How can it be called Frances when the sixth major hurricane of 1998 was already called Frances?
Should you wonder, here is what the rest of the storms for 2004 will be called, if they all happen:
Gaston
Hermine
Ivan
Jeanne
Karl
Lisa
Matthew
Nicole
Otto
Paula
Richard
Shary
Tomas
Virginie
Walter
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Father Steve, they only retire the name if they consider it to be an historic storm. Otherwise, they keep recycling the names every three years or so. The criteria for judging a storm historic is comprised of various factors including magnitude and damage (in $$ and lives).
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I suppose it is only sensible to retire a storm name from time to time. Otherwise, you would eventually end up naming storms things like Etheldreda and Persephone and Ooglik and Cher.
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And every other year they reverse the order so next year they will start with zed.
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>And every other year they reverse the order so next year they will start with zed. Could you supply a link for that, Ted? This page, http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml makes no mention of an order reversal
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Oops. As soon as you mentioned it I realized I was wrong. I don;t know where I got that notion. Perhaps at one time they did that for cyclones in the Pacific, but a quick google didn't turn up anything definitive.
Drat. I hate it when I do that.
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How can it be called Frances when the sixth major hurricane of 1998 was already called Frances?
Perhaps this is the second coming?
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Six lists are used in rotation. Thus, the 2004 list will be used again in 2010.
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