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Old September 14th 03, 08:20 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
Colin Youngs Colin Youngs is offline
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Default where is hurricane grace and henri

Daniel R Stroud wrote in message ...
:As I understand it hurricane are named alphabetically using a list of pre
:defined names for the North Atlantic this consists of six list as detailed
n website: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml.
:
:However I must be missing something, Hurricane Fabian I recall but
according
:to the list the next should have been called Grace then Henri but now we
:have Isabel. Did I miss two hurricanes?


Henri affected Florida and Georgia as a tropical depression - weaker than a
hurricane - a week or so ago. Miami had 64 mm rain in the 24 hours ending
12.00 UTC on Saturday 6th September and Savannah (Georgia) 69 mm in the same
period.

Colin Youngs
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