Talk:2005 Atlantic hurricane season/Archive 2

message: From the article:
:The season has gotten off to an unusually quick start, with two tropical storms forming in June and two in early July. The naming of Dennis on 5 July made it the earliest date on record for four named storms to have formed in the Atlantic basin. The previous record was held during the 1959 season, when Hurricane Cindy was first declared a Tropical Storm on 7 July (since 1959's third storm was unnamed, the fourth storm that year was given the "C" name).
What I don't understand is how the 1959 season is relevant?  I mean, Cindy was not the fourth named storm, so how does it apply to "the earliest date on record for four named storms to have formed in the Atlantic basin"? --timc | Talk 8 July 2005 20:00 (UTC)
::Naming conventions back then were different, and occasionally a storm would reach what we know as "named storm strength" (39 MPH or greater) and not be officially named. 1959 was such a case, where the first two storms were named Arlene and Beulah... but the third storm was only numbered (#3), even though it reached the proper wind speed threshold to become a Tropical Storm. Thus, the fourth storm to meet the criteria was given the C name - Cindy. Perhaps an edit to what you quoted would make it clearer, though... but I can't figure out how to word it. The Great Zo 8 July 2005 20:03 (UTC)
I think Timc is confused here. The Cindy we are refering to in that paragraph is Hurricane Cindy of 1959, not Tropical Storm Cindy of last week. 
E. Brown, Hurricane enthusiast - Squawk Box 8 July 2005 22:01 (UTC)
:Actually, I wasn't confused about that.  I was confused about the existence of a "named storm" which did not have a name.  Seems pretty odd to me. IANAM(eteorologist) --timc | Talk 11:56, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Should say "tropical storms" and not "named storms" due to the occasional unnamed storm, and the complete lack of naming in years past. -- Cyrius|✎ 23:02, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can someone explain this? 

message: The list for hurricane names on the National Hurricane Center website is as follows:
Arlene
Bret
Cindy
Dennis
Emily
Franklin
Gert
Harvey
Irene
Jose
Katrina
Lee
Maria
Nate
Ophelia
Philippe
Rita
Stan
Tammy
Vince
Wilma
What will happen if the unlikely yet possible situation exists where the season surpasses Wilma? What names will they use for X, Y, and Z? why does it stop at Wilma while many of the other lists listed at here: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml stop at Z? Revolución 03:45, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: If the alphabetical list is exhausted, they start over at the top of the Greek Alphabet. The 22nd tropical cyclone would be Tropical Storm Alpha. Q, U, X, Y and Z are not used since there are not many names that start with those letters. CrazyC83 04:33, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Is there a source for this? -- Cyrius|✎ 05:46, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  http://www.srh.noaa.gov/srh/jetstream/tropics/tc_names.htm - one site I found, though it's mentioned on many. The Great Zo 16:43, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  I'll believe it when I see it actually happen...er...uh oh. -- Cyrius|✎ 23:00, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

text: Incidentally, what few names there are that do begin with X, Y, and Z, are used for the Eastern Pacific list, which typically has more storms and DID exhaust its 24 name-long list in the 1992 season. However, they use only two names of these letters; you could consider those names to be their own list used every other year, with the other 21 names used every six years. --Golbez 04:44, July 13, 2005 (UTC)
They did exhaust it, but there were no more storms after the 'Z' name was issued, so they never had to come up with more names.
E. Brown, Hurricane enthusiast - Squawk Box 21:44, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question about the Naming List