Adrian D. Shaw wrote in message ...
:Felly sgrifennodd Colin Youngs :
:Q is not a common letter in German so it is not easy to find names that
:begin with it.
:
:Are there no names beginning with Quelle (source, spring, fountain)? I
:suppose word order dictates that this element would normally be found
:at the end of a name (e.g. Rheinquelle etc).

Surely no-one would be given the name Rheinquelle (source of the Rhine) !

You are right about the normal word order. There are words beginning with
the element Quelle- , e.g. Quellenangabe (indication of source when quoting
someone's work), but not names, as far as I know.

Female Q names used for depressions in 2004 have been Queenie, Quintessa,
Quiana, Queen (?) and Quimburga.
Male Q names used for anticyclones have been Quintus and Quinzy (?). See
http://www.met.fu-berlin.de/adopt-a-vortex/

Even in English I can't think of many male names starting with Q -
Quentin, Quincey, Quasimodo (!) ...

Colin Youngs
Brussels

Martin Rowley wrote in message ...

: :I did a Google search for the name, and came up with a *lot* of
: entries
: :for this storm, so it has generated much interest.

Most of the Google hits on Quimburga were press reports on the effects of
the low in Germany - snow and strong winds causing traffic disruption.
Quimburga is now over Russia and has given over 20 cm snow in Moscow.

:... many thanks for researching that; fascinating story. They obviously
:don't 'retire' names then ;-)

In a few cases the same name is used more than once in the same year. The
2nd and 3rd Low "X" (another difficult letter) this year were both called
Xena. The 1st Low "P" this year was Pia as was the recent one - the 5th
Low "P" - out of which Quimburga developed as a secondary low.

Next year the 1st and 3rd Low "C" will both be called Christian
http://www.met.fu-berlin.de/adopt-a-vortex/tief/

Colin Youngs
Brussels

JPG wrote in message ...
:The only common German word I remember using "Q" is "bequem", meaning
:comfortable ...

But as a meteorologist don't forget the "Quecksilber" in your thermometer
....

Colin Youngs
Brussels