Re: Tropical Storm Zeta Trek Across Atlanic

Here we go again, the old man is back with his crap.
The older they get, the more childish they are.
This kind of child hasn't been spanked enough.


"Earl Evleth" <evleth@xxxxxxxxxx> a écrit dans le message de news:
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> 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.
>
> *****
>
>
>
> 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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