"Colin Youngs" wrote in message
...
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?



see:

http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/...003/index.html

for a neat summary of the 2003 cluster - they don't have to reach
Hurricane status to be accorded a name.

Martin.