# Goog grief. Say hello to Tropical Storm Zeta **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 30, 2005, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goog-grief-say-hello-to-tropical-storm-zeta/337746 "2005-12-30T17:23:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goog-grief-say-hello-to-tropical-storm-zeta/337746/1 "2005-12-30T17:23:33Z")
No, I’m not joking. [Another Tropical Storm has formed.](http://apnews.excite.com/article/20051230/D8EQMLJ81.html) ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goog-grief-say-hello-to-tropical-storm-zeta/337746/2 "2005-12-30T17:52:00Z")
[http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/](http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/) I wonder if they’ll restart with an A if we get another one next week? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goog-grief-say-hello-to-tropical-storm-zeta/337746/3 "2005-12-30T18:35:09Z")
I figured there’d be some ‘extra-seasonal’ storms this year, but December 30th? Damn. ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goog-grief-say-hello-to-tropical-storm-zeta/337746/4 "2005-12-30T18:43:21Z")
> [@Squink](#): > > [http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/](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. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goog-grief-say-hello-to-tropical-storm-zeta/337746/5 "2005-12-30T18:46:55Z")
> [@Squink](#): > > [http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/](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. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goog-grief-say-hello-to-tropical-storm-zeta/337746/6 "2005-12-30T18:49:37Z")
> [@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. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2005, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goog-grief-say-hello-to-tropical-storm-zeta/337746/7 "2005-12-31T16:28:55Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > I think he meant because it’ll be 2006 Yup. If we get one next week [it’ll be an ‘A’ storm](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051231/ap_on_re_us/tropical_weather): > [@](#): > > 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.** ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2006, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goog-grief-say-hello-to-tropical-storm-zeta/337746/8 "2006-01-01T02:29:50Z")
> [@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: