A Katia, courtest of Google image search:
Posted on 04/06/2006 11:29:31 AM PDT by varina davis
WASHINGTON - Never will Katrina be so little missed. Nor Dennis, Rita, Stan and Wilma - four other hurricane names from last year's devastating storms that have now been officially retired.
Normally six lists of names are used in rotation for storms in the Atlantic-Caribbean-Gulf of Mexico region, but names of particularly destructive storms are retired.
The decision to retire these five names was made by an international committee of the World Meteorological Organization meeting in Puerto Rico, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced.
They were part of a record 27 named storms and 15 hurricanes that occurred in 2005.
The retired names will be replaced by Don, Katia, Rina, Sean and Whitney.
Some 67 names have been retired since storms were first named in 1953. The first to be dropped, in 1954, were Carol and Hazel. Last year's five is the most retired in a single year.
Reid, Kerry, Kennedy, McCain and Edwards????
Thanks. I've always wondered about the name thing.
I'm surprised they didn't retire Emily - it might have been a Cat 5 and hit Cancun pretty hard. And what kind of nitwit replaces Katrina with Katia and Rita with Rina? You'd think there are enough names out there to get names that are not so similar phonetically.
The voters are the ones responsible for retiring windbags. Hurricanes that cause fatalities normally get their names retired. But apparently a windbag can cause a fatality and not get retired.
Katrina to Rina? Some risk there.
P. Diddy and Whitney Houston are gonna make a record?
"Katia"; what's a katia?
I wonder if Whitney will make landfall over Houston? LOL
Naw....Whitney will start out strong, but will turn out to be extremely self destructive and will wither away to a shell of her former self
With all the crack cocaine brought into Houston by the Katrina evacuees, I wouldn't be surprised.
A Katia, courtest of Google image search:
LOL......thanks 4 the laff
The new names are "newer" sounding too.
I'm half surprised they didn't choose Shaniqua or something like that for the S name.
I for one welcome our new Russian overlords... :)
I know a Katia and she's not Middle Eastern at all.
My wife's name actually.
Russian names have a LOT of different forms depending on your relationship with the person.
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