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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Hurricane names for this season

Each year June 1 makes many coastal residents quake in their boots as the hurricane season begins. The evil-eyed storms, hurricanes, plague the Gulf and Atlantic states from June 1 to November 30 each year.
This year, 2011, is a particular attention-getter, not for the predictions but for the fact the lists of hurricane names go into rotation and this year the list used in 2005 is back. The year 2005 is well-known for Katrina, Rita and Wilma and for 21 hurricanes exhausting the list and causing the storms at the end of the season to be called by Greek letters Alpha through Zeta.
There are six lists that continue to rotate. Names are retired when there is a hurricane so devastating it is synonymous with the year it hit. From the 2005 list five names have been replaced. Dennis was replaced by Don, Katrina was replaced by Katia, Rita was replaced by Rina, Stan was replaced by Sean and Wilma was replaced by Whitney.
Following is the list of hurricanes for 2011.
Arlene
Bret
Cindy
Don
Emily
Franklin
Gert
Harvey
Irene
Jose
Katia
Lee
Maria
Nate
Ophelia
Philippe
Rina
Sean
Tammy
Vince
Whitney

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