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Old September 7th 05, 01:23 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
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"Jonathan Stott" schreef in bericht
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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?


Second a "Vita"; And would our "Y"annis go for "gama" )?
Oh, well it would be excessive if it'll come to that many tropical storms?
Have there ever been in the past?


Wijke