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?

Comments

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.

[babbleon1.livejournal.com]

And in case you're wondering who the mysterious "they" are - we are being ruled by a world council:
http://www.wmo.ch/web/www/TCP/OperationPlans/TCP30-English2005.pdf
page 90

They don't have a contingency plan!

But we could lobby, if we wanted to. Trish and I want to see Xavier, Zelda and Quentin.

On the other hand, late season hurricanes tend to be weaker, therefor less likely to cause lots of damage/deaths. Of course, they may also come at the end of a long, tiring, painful hurricane season and have fewer people evacuate, leading to more lives lost. I suspect the World Council will figure a way out, maintaining their control over an innocent populace.

[dhw.livejournal.com]

Some letters should be safe.

Hurricane Epsilon will be very very small.