I just had a thought...

[kickaha]

If they retire hurricane names that are considered highly damaging and deadly...

And now they're getting into Greek letter names...

Might we have, years down the road, a series of names past W like Beta, Delta, Epsilon, etc?

Will they retire the supplementary names?

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Possibly

[gwywnnydd.livejournal.com]

They retire names of particularly damaging storms, but they still recycle through the alphabet. So, Andrew and Camille have been retired, but there's still Anthony and Andrea and Christopher and Catherine and ... you get the point.

I suspect they'd only retire the supplemental names if they a) got that far, and b) had a really bad storm. So I suppose it's possible.

Re: Possibly

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Right, but the point was that they can't replace the name of a letter with, well, anything. :)

Unless Alpha -> Aleph (Hebrew) or something silly like that.

We just had Alpha show up and kill a few people in Haiti, so...

Re: Possibly

[gwywnnydd.livejournal.com]

They could move on to another alphabet.