Tropocal Strom Beta
By: Lance Winslow
Tropical Storm Beta sends us on into the Greek Alphabet with still 30-days left in the Tropical Hurricane 2005 Season. Now we have already broken all the records. We have had three category five storms in one season. The most named tropcical Stroms ever in the history of keeping records.
Tropical Storm Alpha set that record as he joined his evil twin sister Wilma who had already wreaked havoc on our Western World Weather Records. Indeed tropcial storm Beta is just another sign that this is one Tropical Hurricane Season we will never forget.
The question still remains will there be a Tropocal Storm Delta, tropcial strom gamma, tropical storm Epsilon, as well? And how many of these will be Hurricanes? And what happens if we run thru the storms of Zeta, Eta, Theta, Lota and Kappa? What if three of those become landfall type late season Hurricanes? Will we remove them from the list next year? And if so, then that means next year if it is anything like this year may in fact run thru all the names.
You see they retire tropocal strom names, which turn into killer Hurricanes and they do not use them for a few years as not to confuse folks from last years or recent years storms. For instance Hurricane Names like Andrew, Charlie, Katrina, Rita and Wilma are names that will not be used anymore. So next year they may have to use the phonetic alphabet for aviation. Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Foxtrot, Gulf, Hotel, India, Juliet, Kilo, Lima, Mike, November, Oscar and Papa. But you see if we get a Hurricane Delta then we cannot reuse that.
We can reuse Alpha, but probably shouldn’t because even as a tropical storm he flooded out the Dominican Republic and further flooded Puerto Rico; there were deaths. Naming Huricanes and tropocal stomrs is tough for many reasons.
In Australia they use to name the storms after politicians and that was great because the come and go and you never run out of them or all their hot air. Think about what I am saying here, how I have said it and what my purpose in proposing it in this fashion really is?
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