Goog grief. Say hello to Tropical Storm Zeta

[Diceman]

No, I’m not joking. Another Tropical Storm has formed.

[Squink]

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
I wonder if they’ll restart with an A if we get another one next week?

[Marley23]

I figured there’d be some ‘extra-seasonal’ storms this year, but December 30th? Damn.

[Pork_Rind]

@Squink

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
I wonder if they’ll restart with an A if we get another one next week?

No. Zeta is only the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet. Eta would be next.

[bouv]

@Squink

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
I wonder if they’ll restart with an A if we get another one next week?

We’d have to get to Omega before we could restart. The greek alphabet goes:

Alpha, beta, gamma, epsilon, delta, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu, xi, omicron, pi, rho, sigma, tau, upsilon, phi, chi, psiu, omega.

[Marley23]

@Pork Rind

No. Zeta is only the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet. Eta would be next.

I think he meant because it’ll be 2006, not because it’s the end of the Greek alphabet.

[Squink]

@Marley23

I think he meant because it’ll be 2006

Yup.
If we get one next week it’ll be an ‘A’ storm:

Zeta tied one other storm for the latest developing named system since record keeping began in 1851, said Greg Romano, a National Weather Service spokesman. Tropical Storm Alice developed Dec. 30, 1954, and later became a hurricane before dissipating Jan. 5.

Romano said Zeta just made the cut to be counted for the 2005 season because storms developing after December apply to the following season.

[Pork_Rind]

@Marley23

I think he meant because it’ll be 2006, not because it’s the end of the Greek alphabet.

Oh yeah. Double duh on me. :smack: