Tropical Storm 16 has a name and is coming to Florida

[LynneSin]

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

[sniffa]

1. is her Last name 'baLLz'?

couLd the guLf get wacked again?

[trogdor]

7. As in Hamlet's dead psycho girlfriend.

[In_The_Wind]

2. Ophelia

[billyskank]

3. Who picks the name? n/t

[supernova]

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

[billyskank]

5. Thanks!

:)

[LynneSin]

6. They also retire the names of especially destructive ones

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!

[supernova]

8. Hazel - 1954

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.

[GalleryGod]

9. My first Hurricane was Hazel !

Got to New Jersey and blew out the power!

[SoCalDem]

10. Mine was Florence 1953, september

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:)

[LynneSin]

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.

[LynneSin]

12. 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.

[WCGreen]

15. Mr. B, Mr. B......

[JVS]

13. What happened to Latrell, Mario, and Nevin?

[gollygee]

14. Named after a character who drowned herself

that was an interesting choice.

[flamingyouth]

16. Yeah, that was my first thought too...

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