leetdan
(Weather Guru)
Wed Sep 15 2004 07:22 PM
Re: Question

Seems there's some confusion - the Navy (?) used to identify storms with the old Phonetic Alphabet -- Able, Baker, etc which in today's system would be Alpha Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot (not to be confused with the Greek letters Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, etc, but I digress).

Anyways, back in '98 I believe, the local TV meteorologist said that if they run out of names on the NHC list, they would then start using names spelled with the Greek alphabet, starting with Alpha. And no, I'm not too sure myself how that would work

Stay safe everybody.



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