Re: news: Tropical Storm Zeta forms in Atlantic

You beat me to it....I was going to HEY GEORGE this to you :)
Its not going to end this time :)

lkgeo1 wrote: 
Tropical Storm Zeta forms in Atlantic

By ADRIAN SAINZ, Associated Press
Last updated: 1:16 p.m., Friday, December 30, 2005

MIAMI -- Tropical Storm Zeta formed Friday in the eastern Atlantic
Ocean, another installment in a record-breaking hurricane season that
officially ended last month.
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Zeta, the 27th storm of the season, formed Friday about 1,000 miles
south-southwest of the Azores islands, according to an advisory posted
on the National Hurricane Center's Web site. It posed no immediate
threat to land.

The center said it would send out a full advisory later Friday.
Tropical storms have winds of at least 39 mph.

It was not immediately known if Dec. 30 was the latest date for the
formation of a tropical storm in the Atlantic. But earlier this month,
Hurricane Epsilon became only the fifth hurricane to form in December
in 154 years of record-keeping. Hurricanes form when their winds exceed
74 mph.

Zeta is the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet, which forecasters
turned to after they used up -- for the first time -- their list of 21
proper names for storms. The record for tropical storms and hurricanes
in a season had been 21, set in 1933 before such storms were regularly
named.

The 2005 Atlantic storm season, which officially ended Nov. 30,
included 14 hurricanes, including Epsilon.

One of the hurricanes, Katrina, destroyed large portions of Louisiana
and Mississippi last August in the most costly disaster in U.S.
history. Hurricanes Dennis, Rita and Wilma also caused significant
damage in the U.S.

Forecasters have said that hurricane seasons are going to be more
active than usual for at least another decade -- and possibly as long
as 50 years.


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