Tropical Storm Zeta Trek Across Atlanic

This is usually easy sailing time in the Caribbean.
No storms!

In mean time Paris will have relatively warm weather
up until the 6th. It is 10°C today and sunny for the
momenet.

Global warming, naturally. The hot air out of some
members of the news group has also been exceptional
lately.

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Tropical Storm Continues Trek Across Ocean

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press Writer
© 2005 The Associated Press

MIAMI ? Tropical Storm Zeta organized Saturday morning as it moved
across the Atlantic, a day after it formed and tied a record for the latest
developing named storm in one of the busiest hurricane seasons on record,
forecasters said.

The National Hurricane Center said the storm was not expected to develop
into a hurricane or threaten land. But it was a surprise because it came a
month after the official end of the hurricane season Nov. 30.

The 27th named storm of the season, Zeta was located about 1,040 miles
southwest of the Azores, the National Hurricane Center reported around 3:30
a.m. EST Saturday. Zeta had maximum sustained winds near 60 mph and was
moving toward the northwest near 5 mph.

The storm was expected to make a gradual turn west-northwest or west later
in the day. Forecasters expected little change in strength.

The season brought a record 14 hurricanes, including Hurricane Katrina,
which devastated Louisiana and Mississippi in August, killing more than
1,300 people in the most costly disaster in U.S. history. Forecasters
exhausted their list of 21 proper names and began using the Greek alphabet
to name storms for the first time.

Zeta tied one other storm for the latest developing named system since
record keeping began in 1851, said Greg Romano, a National Weather Service
spokesman. Tropical Storm Alice developed Dec. 30, 1954, and later became a
hurricane before dissipating Jan. 5.

Romano said Zeta just made the cut to be counted for the 2005 season because
storms developing after December apply to the following season.

"Had this storm developed in January it would be called Alberto, not Zeta,"
Romano said.

Earlier this month, Hurricane Epsilon became only the fifth hurricane to
form in December in 154 years of record keeping _ though Romano said some
storms could have fallen through the cracks before technology such as
satellites was available to help find and track tropical systems.



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