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Names for storms, hurricanes running out
(Reuters)
Updated: 2005-09-22 19:03
Hurricane Alpha? Tropical Storm Epsilon? Before this year is out, TV
forecasters and coastal residents may have to break out their Greek dictionaries
if the Atlantic hurricane season keeps up its frantic pace.
There are only four names left for tropical storms and hurricanes this year:
Stan, Tammy, Vince and Wilma. After that, names switch to the 24 letters of the
Greek alphabet: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and so on through Omega, if needed.
That has never happened before in roughly 60 years of regularly named
Atlantic storms.
"If we get up into that league, we'll have issues larger than naming these
storms," said Frank Lepore, spokesman for the National Hurricane Center in
Miami. "The new phrase will be hurricane fatigue. Let's coin that right now."
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