2020 Cyclone Names (Atlantic and Eastern Pacific)

[PelicanBill]

About halfway through the "off season" now.... here's a look ahead.

 

2020 Atlantic Storm Names

Arthur, Bertha, Cristobal, Dolly, Edouard, Fay, Gonzalo, Hanna, Isaias, Josephine, Kyle, Laura, Marco,
Nana, Omar, Paulette, Rene, Sally, Teddy, Vicky, Wilfred

 

2020 Eastern Pacific Storm Names

Amanda, Boris, Cristina, Douglas, Elida, Fausto, Genevieve, Hernan, Iselle, Julio, Karina, Lowell,
Marie, Norbert, Odalys, Polo, Rachel, Simon, Trudy, Vance, Winnie, Xavier, Yolanda, Zeke

 

Learning about tropical storm naming here: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml#enp 

 

See you soon, probably in June!

[PelicanBill]

Will you look at that. Just one name left?  Does that mean the season ends early?

[PelicanBill]

Burning questions and answers.

 

Five named storms at once?  ties the record from 1971.

 

What happens when we run out of names?  We use the greek alphabet (alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta...)

 

The Atlantic record for named storms is 27, set in 2005.  we're at 20 now.  Sure looks like we could challenge the record.