Comments on: Katrina Returns, Sans Waves

By: spurwing plover

spurwing plover — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 13:10:09 +0000

The hurricane had hardly ben gone when the eco-freaks and the liberal left-wing news media were already yammering about global warming being the cuase of hurricane katrina and why it was so servere the biggist amount of hot air came from the enviromentalist wackos and the political hacks in their service

By: McGehee

McGehee — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 16:57:10 +0000

(Tropical Depressions take a letter, but not a name, IIRC, so we had Katrina, Trop Depressions L M N, and now Tropical Storm/Hurricane Ophelia.

Tropical depressions are numbered, not lettered. There were tropical storms or hurricanes, with names, for each of the letters between Katrina and Ophelia — they just didn’t come ashore to the U.S. so most people never heard of Tropical Storm Lee, Hurricane Maria, or Hurricane Nate.

The name-list rotation is six years.

aving a wife who works for the National Weather Service can be very useful. Or it can give me knowledge like what I’m imparting here…

By: David

David — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 03:10:15 +0000

Last year there was some serious complaints when the names “Jesus” and “Israel” were suggested for future hurricanes (part of an attempt to be more Hispanic/”multicultural.”) Headlines like “Israel kills hundreds” or “Jesus destroys homes” were considered less than desirable after some debate.

By: Pat Patterson

Pat Patterson — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 00:20:52 +0000

Name the disasters after the governor of the state where the hurrican does the most damage, or hits first. But let them have a 24 hr. grace period to resign before the hurricane arrives and let the next in line get all the notoriety.

By: Magna Carta

Magna Carta — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 16:09:21 +0000

[Irrelevant crap that was spammed to this thread and two others, and which, if repeated again, will get this user banned.]

By: aphrael

aphrael — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 15:59:00 +0000

Part of the point is to be able to distinguish hurricanes from different years, which the single-letter scheme wouldn’t do; hurricanes are named on a multi-year cycle, so any name which is used this year won’t be next year, etc.

Also, names of particularly destructive hurricanes are typically removed from the naming pool, which gives them a permanent unique identifier.

And yes, i would prefer not to have an earthquake named after me. :)

By: Gary and the Samoyeds

Gary and the Samoyeds — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 00:46:36 +0000

Why not keep with the single letter whether or not it is a depression/storm/hurricane? If you are talking about storms in the past, prefix them with the year. So rather than Katrina who doesn't deserve her name ruined like that, it would be 2005K. And Ophelia would be 2005O. Andrew would have been 1992A. And so on.

By: The Pathetic Earthling

The Pathetic Earthling — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 15:54:07 +0000

…oops.

but since you are going to call them something to track the season, names are as good as anything.

By: The Pathetic Earthling

The Pathetic Earthling — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 15:53:36 +0000

I suppose you could go back to not calling them anything, but since they come alphabetically during the year (Andrew was the first Hurricane/Tropical Storm/Tropical Depression) (Tropical Depressions take a letter, but not a name, IIRC, so we had Katrina, Trop Depressions L M N, and now Tropical Storm/Hurricane Ophelia.

By: Xrlq

Xrlq — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 06:17:18 +0000

Doc: I sit corrected.

Nels: to some extent, we already do that, e.g., Hurricane Andrew (Sullivan), Hurricane Hugo (Chavez), and now Hurricane Katrina (van den Heuvel).