Talk:National Hurricane Center

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[edit] Greek

I heard on the news that once they pass the letter W on the naming system, the plan is to use the greek alphabet, e.g. Hurricane Alpha, Hurricane Beta. They also claimed that this has never been employed before: there have never been more than 21 storms that reached hurricane status in a given year. Can anyone else verify this? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bryanmtmorrison (talk • contribs) 19:02, October 18, 2005 (UTC).

That is basically correct - there has never been more than 21 named storms in a year (we are tied with 1933 and that was back before naming started). There has never been more than 12 (not 21) hurricanes in a year, but a storm doesn't quite have to be a hurricane to get a name. You can find more details at tropical cyclone and 2005 Atlantic hurricane season.

Feel free to ask questions like this at Wikipedia:Reference desk, which might be faster. Welcome to Wikipedia! AySz88^-^ 00:19, 19 October 2005 (UTC)