# Tropical Storm Epsilon & God's Broken Finger **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 29, 2005, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tropical-storm-epsilon-gods-broken-finger/333295 "2005-11-29T23:38:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tropical-storm-epsilon-gods-broken-finger/333295/1 "2005-11-29T23:38:00Z")
For those of you still keeping track of things, [we’re up to 26 named storms now.](http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1356753) > [@](#): > > Tropical Storm Epsilon formed Tuesday in the central Atlantic and could cause dangerous surf conditions in Bermuda over the next few days, forecasters said. > > But the 26th named storm of the busiest hurricane season on record was not expected to hit land, according to forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami. I’m not sure I buy that considering what [this **other** tropical storm just did.](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4482384.stm) > [@](#): > > The storm also broke a huge rock and natural monument near Agaete, known as the “Finger of God”. :eek: > [@](#): > > “It’s just not normal,” Angel Riva of Spain’s National Meteorological Institute (INM) told Agence France Presse news agency. > > A storm forming off the Azores tends to brew up further south, he said. > > “That it should then come east towards Europe, and to the zone and latitudes of the Canaries, is a very unusual phenomenon.” ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tropical-storm-epsilon-gods-broken-finger/333295/2 "2005-11-29T23:40:40Z")
Aw, crap. We’re just _all_ in the handbasket now, aren’t we? ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tropical-storm-epsilon-gods-broken-finger/333295/3 "2005-11-30T00:42:21Z")
God will just have to give them another finger. I wonder which one it will be? ---
**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tropical-storm-epsilon-gods-broken-finger/333295/4 "2005-11-30T02:59:46Z")
It’s a sign, I’m telling you, it’s a sign. I’m OK, but when The End Times come, you are all gonna go to…well, wherever. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tropical-storm-epsilon-gods-broken-finger/333295/5 "2005-11-30T03:03:30Z")
Maybe monotheism wasn’t the way to go. ---
**Author:** ![ImaginalDisc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a88e57/32.png) [@ImaginalDisc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ImaginalDisc)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tropical-storm-epsilon-gods-broken-finger/333295/6 "2005-11-30T03:40:56Z")
IAMA Meteroroligist, but it seems that one of the key ingredients that’s been msissing in “hurricane soup” before the recent years is that the water needs to be 82 degrees F for hurricanes to form. [http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/environment/HURRICANE\_RECIPE.html](http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/environment/HURRICANE_RECIPE.html) Human Greenhouse Gas emission. Global Warming. 82 degree water. Hurricanes. Let’s play connect the dots. We have none to blame but ourselves. I say this while water drips through the roof above me, since was damaged twice this season. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tropical-storm-epsilon-gods-broken-finger/333295/7 "2005-11-30T03:46:52Z")
Before and after Delta photos of the Finger of God [here](http://www.gran-canaria-info.com/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Dedo+de+Dios). ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tropical-storm-epsilon-gods-broken-finger/333295/8 "2005-11-30T04:02:06Z")
> [@Squink](#): > > Before and after Delta photos of the Finger of God [here](http://www.gran-canaria-info.com/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Dedo+de+Dios). The “before” looks like a _middle_ finger to me. They could rename it “Fist of God”. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tropical-storm-epsilon-gods-broken-finger/333295/9 "2005-11-30T04:08:45Z")
> [@Squink](#): > > Before and after Delta photos of the Finger of God [here](http://www.gran-canaria-info.com/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Dedo+de+Dios). Did you notice the 5th picture down? There is a definite moon shot going on there. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tropical-storm-epsilon-gods-broken-finger/333295/10 "2005-11-30T09:04:29Z")
Apparently God owed Somebody money. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tropical-storm-epsilon-gods-broken-finger/333295/11 "2005-11-30T09:08:01Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > The “before” looks like a _middle_ finger to me. They could rename it “Fist of God”. Without the big finger, it looks more like a mitten. ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tropical-storm-epsilon-gods-broken-finger/333295/12 "2005-11-30T13:25:37Z")
Hell, it didn’t look like that much of a finger to begin with, much less the finger of God. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tropical-storm-epsilon-gods-broken-finger/333295/13 "2005-11-30T15:05:41Z")
I tell ya, the Yakuza is everywhere now. ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tropical-storm-epsilon-gods-broken-finger/333295/14 "2005-11-30T15:56:14Z")
2005: The year America learned the Greek alphabet. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tropical-storm-epsilon-gods-broken-finger/333295/15 "2005-11-30T16:05:04Z")
What’s after epsilon? (_No_, for the love of Og, don’t send another hurricane for me to find out!) I’ve always gone: alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, theta, omega… but that’s it. My alphabet-fu is off ☹ ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tropical-storm-epsilon-gods-broken-finger/333295/16 "2005-11-30T17:20:28Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > What’s after epsilon? (_No_, for the love of Og, don’t send another hurricane for me to find out!) > > I’ve always gone: alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, theta, omega… but that’s it. My alphabet-fu is off ☹ Zeta,eta, theta, iota, kappa,lambda, mu,nu,xi,omicron,pi.rho,sigma,tau,upsilon,phi,psi.chi,omega. Lord knows what happens if we run out of Greek letters. ---
**Author:** ![Viscera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/258eb7/32.png) [@Viscera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Viscera)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2005, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tropical-storm-epsilon-gods-broken-finger/333295/17 "2005-12-01T10:26:36Z")
> [@ImaginalDisc](#): > > IAMA Meteroroligist, but it seems that one of the key ingredients that’s been msissing in “hurricane soup” before the recent years is that the water needs to be 82 degrees F for hurricanes to form. > > [NASA - Recipe for a Hurricane](http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/environment/HURRICANE_RECIPE.html) > Human Greenhouse Gas emission. > > Global Warming. > > 82 degree water. > > Hurricanes. > > Let’s play connect the dots. > > We have none to blame but ourselves. I say this while water drips through the roof above me, since was damaged twice this season. Slight hijack (wait, this is MPSIMS ;)), I researched the subject a bit ago, and the results of which are basically, we don’t know if global warming leads to increased number of hurricanes, but data shows it may be less hurricanes. Post is near the bottom of the 1st page. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=336375&highlight=hurricane+global+warming](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=336375&highlight=hurricane+global+warming) ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2005, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tropical-storm-epsilon-gods-broken-finger/333295/18 "2005-12-01T14:10:09Z")
> [@BwanaBob](#): > > Lord knows what happens if we run out of Greek letters. Mandarin pictograms. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2005, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tropical-storm-epsilon-gods-broken-finger/333295/19 "2005-12-01T14:36:00Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > The “before” looks like a _middle_ finger to me. They could rename it “Fist of God”. Or the Stark Fist of Removal? ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2005, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tropical-storm-epsilon-gods-broken-finger/333295/20 "2005-12-01T14:45:51Z")
> [@Viscera](#): > > Slight hijack (wait, this is MPSIMS ;)), I researched the subject a bit ago, and the results of which are basically, we don’t know if global warming leads to increased number of hurricanes, but data shows it may be less hurricanes. Post is near the bottom of the 1st page. > > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=336375&highlight=hurricane+global+warming](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=336375&highlight=hurricane+global+warming) Being in a hurricane zone, I’ve also read a few things on this. Conjecture to this point is that more hurricanes are NOT an outcome of global warming, but that more powerful hurricanes may be. This will probably end up being one of those things where they end up quibbling about it forever and we really never know what is true. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tropical-storm-epsilon-gods-broken-finger/333295.md?page=2)