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Old September 7th 05, 01:14 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
Jonathan Stott Jonathan Stott is offline
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Martin Rowley wrote:

... as I understand it, the named storm following 'Wilma' would be
'Alpha', then 'Beta' etc. The question was raised (the first time it
came up - when we had the confusion between phonetic and greek), what
would happen if a hurricane from the 'secondary' list needed retiring?


Change the Greek alphabet?

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