Re: O.T. - Hurricanes: no more names in our alphabet are available

On 17 Oct 2005 10:14:48 -0700, Winfield Hill
<Winfield_member@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> "The Atlantic Ocean hurricane season tied a 1933 record for
> the busiest ever as Tropical Storm Wilma formed today over
> the Caribbean Sea."
>
> http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aUnk9zxPVQJk
>
> "All the letters of the alphabet except Q, U, X, Y and Z are
> used to name storms. After Wilma, the storms will be named
> for the letters in the Greek alphabet: Alpha, Beta, Gamma,
> Delta and so on."

Why? Is the government bureaucracy so ignorant that it can't make
names from those letters ?:-)

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice:(480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax:(480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
.

Relevant Pages