Tropical Storm 16 has a name and is coming to Florida

LynneSin

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Tue Sep-06-05 12:13 PM
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Tropical Storm 16 has a name and is coming to Florida

Let's hope she's like Katrina when she hit the Florida coast which was really just alot of wind & rain but nothing seriously damaging.

Oh, her name is Ophelia

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at1+shtml/145127.shtml?3day

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sniffa

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Tue Sep-06-05 12:16 PM
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1. is her Last name 'baLLz'?

couLd the guLf get wacked again?

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trogdor

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Tue Sep-06-05 12:54 PM
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7. As in Hamlet's dead psycho girlfriend.

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In_The_Wind

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Tue Sep-06-05 12:20 PM
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2. Ophelia

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billyskank

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Tue Sep-06-05 12:21 PM
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3. Who picks the name? n/t

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supernova

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Tue Sep-06-05 12:26 PM
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4. The National Hurricane Center

They pick them a year in advance.

Here's a neat FAQ on the history of naming storms:

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/B1.html

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billyskank

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Tue Sep-06-05 12:27 PM
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5. Thanks!

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LynneSin

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Tue Sep-06-05 12:30 PM
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6. They also retire the names of especially destructive ones

Edited on Tue Sep-06-05 12:32 PM by LynneSin

There will never be another Hurricane Katrina. She'll be retired immediately

http://geography.about.com/od/physicalgeography/a/retirednames.htm

Edit to include the list of names that have been retired. It's updated to 2004 so Katrina isn't on there yet!

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supernova

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Tue Sep-06-05 12:58 PM
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8. Hazel - 1954

Edited on Tue Sep-06-05 12:59 PM by supernova

is the one everyone remembers around here.... until Floyd in 1999. Hazel was wind and lightening. My sister was six at the time and she remembers the trees being horizonal.

Floyd everyone will remember not so much for the stormy condtions but for all the flooding, just like in the Gulf now.

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GalleryGod

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Tue Sep-06-05 01:11 PM
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9. My first Hurricane was Hazel !

Got to New Jersey and blew out the power!

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SoCalDem

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Tue Sep-06-05 01:29 PM
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10. Mine was Florence 1953, september

Edited on Tue Sep-06-05 01:29 PM by SoCalDem

but i was only 4, so I only vaguely remember it.. we had no glass in our windows to start with..(only metal louvers) so we got very wet:)

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LynneSin

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Tue Sep-06-05 01:32 PM
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11. Mine was Agnes!!!

She cut through florida starting in the gulf and heading through the Altantic and for some reason she decided to come back again and came in through NYC and stopped in Pennsylvania for a couple of days.

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LynneSin

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Tue Sep-06-05 01:35 PM
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12. Mine was Agnes!!!

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WCGreen

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Tue Sep-06-05 02:52 PM
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15. Mr. B, Mr. B......

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JVS

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Tue Sep-06-05 01:37 PM
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13. What happened to Latrell, Mario, and Nevin?

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gollygee

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Tue Sep-06-05 01:40 PM
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14. Named after a character who drowned herself

that was an interesting choice.

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flamingyouth

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Tue Sep-06-05 03:01 PM
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16. Yeah, that was my first thought too...

:yoiks:

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