Hugh
(Senior Storm Chaser)
Sat May 31 2008 06:19 PM
Re: alma starts a fight

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This is actually a very common misunderstanding.
A couple of years ago the policy was changed. If and when a system crosses into another basin, even by way of land, as long as its core remains intact and is very much the nucleus for renewed development, then it retains the same name.




I just googled this and you're correct and I was mistaken. I thought the policy was changed a couple of years ago to provide for renaming the system, but I got it backwards


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