Hurricane/Tropical Storm frequency

Factual Questions
1

Every year, just before “Hurricane Season,” some spokesman for some weather organization says that “this season could set a record for hurricane activity.”

I’d like to find some link that showed just how many tropical storms and hurricanes develop each year just to see how much deviation there is from one year to another.

Any ideas??

2

You could try http://www.weather.com

That’s the Weather Channel homepage.

3

Try http://www.weather.com/ . I haven’t been over there in a while, but my memory from a year ago (or the previous year) is that they had a page or two devoted exclusively to hurricanes.

Another possible sight might be Dr. Dewpoint at http://www.intellicast.com/DrDewpoint/ .

Tom~

4

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastall.html
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/tcfaqG.html#G4

5

Or how 'bout USA Today’s Hurricane History?

6

Anyone know how far down the alphabet we got for hurricane names?

7

If you’re talking Atlantic hurricanes, the names go down to W, but there is no Q. If they run out of names, they go to the Greek alphabet (which they did a few years ago).
In the Eastern Pacific, hurricanes/typhoons g from A to Z and don’t skip any letters as there are more storms there.
In the Western Pacific, there is a series of names that just goes around and around regardless of the year.
The Weather Channel link has a good section.

8

*Markxxx: Anyone know how far down the alphabet we got for hurricane names? *
[ul][li]In the North Atlantic, the letters Q, U, X, Y, and Z are skipped.[/li][li]In the (north)Eastern Pacific, the letters Q & U are skipped. (The only X names planned for use are Xina and Xavier.)[/li][li]In the (north)Central Pacific, only A, E, H, I, K, L, M, N, O, P, U, & W are used (12 letters).[/li][li]In the (north)Western Pacific, Q, U, & X are skipped.[/li][li]Western Australia: they have 3 lists, 2 with 21 names, one with 20. One skips Q, U, W, X, & Y; another Q, U, X, Y, Z; the short list Q, R(!), U, X, Y, Z.[/li][li]Northern Australia: skips Q, U, X, Y, Z; 2 lists[/li][li]Eastern Australia: skips Q, U, X, Y, Z; 3 lists[/li][li]Fiji region: skips Q & X on three lists, Q, X, & Y on a fourth. Their fifth is used to replace retired names from the other 4.[/li][li]Papua New Guinea: 2 lists, one with 8 names, one with 7. FYI:[/li]



   List 1       List 2
   Epi          Abdul
   Guba         Emau
   Ila          Gule
   Kama         Igo
   Matere       Kamit
   Rowe         Tiogo
   Tako         Ume
   Upia

(Hope that comes out OK)

[li]Southwest Indian Ocean: skips Q, U, X, & Z; one list[/ul][/li]
All of the above is from NOAA’s World-Wide Tropical Cyclone Names page.

9

Just FYI: Next year the 19th and 20th tropical storms/hurricanes will be named Tony and Valerie. My nickname’s Tony; my wife is Valri (variation of Valerie).

That’d be weird if the names get used.

More weirdness: the 21st would be William, my middle name!

10

Those names are for the North Atlantic storms, BTW…