New What's the Last Storm for 2005?

[Steve]

What do you think? I'm stopping with Eta since that leaves the option for 5 additional named storms from now through November 30th (or beyond). No way November gives us 5 named storms, but...

Steve

[jasons2k]

Scary thought that we may go deeper in the Greek alphabet than we have gone in some years in the standard alphabet.

[Steve]

I guess I didn't update the option when I put in Eta, so it only goes to Zeta (6th letter of the Greek Alphabet). /my bad

Steve

[Regit]

What do you think? I'm stopping with Eta since that leaves the option for 5 additional named storms from now through November 30th (or beyond). No way November gives us 5 named storms, but...

Steve

Famous last words.

[ChaserUK]

I went for Zeta.

After this year - NOTHING - would surprise me.

[wxmann_91]

Delta.

[Brent]

I said Delta a few days ago(before Beta) and I'm sticking to it.

[quandary]

I said Zeta. Again, for no reason other than Zeta starts with Z and Z is the last letter of the normal alphabet and it would be fitting for the year to end with Z.

However, Zeta is also 4 storms away, which seems almost a reasonable estimate (perhaps a stretch).

[Jim Cantore]

heres a what if

what happens if we finish the greek letters?

[hurricanefreak1988]

I originally thought we'd end it with Delta, but now, I think we'll go farther than Zeta. The tropics show no signs of going to sleep for the winter just yet.

[krysof]

heres a what if

what happens if we finish the greek letters?

we won't

[Jim Cantore]

I know we wont

say though we did next year

[fasterdisaster]

heres a what if

what happens if we finish the greek letters?

I'd probably use swear words

[infonut]

I would have voted, but Kappa wasn't an option.

[johngaltfla]

In June, when I found this board, I speculated that Beta would be the end.

Now I say Epsilon. I fear that we could see a Vince type storm in December to be the capper to what has been an absolutely amazing season.

[Hurricanehink]

I know we wont

say though we did next year

Nothing official. If it were up to me, it would be the early 1950's names(Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog, Easy, Fox....). Back on topic, I voted for Epsilon.

[WxGuy1]

I voted either Gamma or Delta (forgot which LOL) as being the last named storm. It's very tough to get more than a couple of storms in November. With SST anomolies across the tropical Atlantic starting to come down, I'm not confident that we'll see more than one or two more named storms this seasons. It's nice to think that, since the season up to this point has been amazingly above average, the rest of the year will be above average as well. However, I'm not sure this will be the case. IIRC, we tend to see 1 named storm after Nov 1 on average. If the conditions come back to 'average' or 'normal' for this time of year, there's not particular reason (other than statistical chance) that we'll continue to see above average activity through the end of the year. Conditions are more favorable that climatology would suggest, thus the reason I'm thinking we could see another 2 named storms this year.

[El Nino]

Omega

[whereverwx]

I said Zeta. Again, for no reason other than Zeta starts with Z and Z is the last letter of the normal alphabet and it would be fitting for the year to end with Z.

However, Zeta is also 4 storms away, which seems almost a reasonable estimate (perhaps a stretch).

I went for Zeta.

After this year - NOTHING - would surprise me.

And right you were.

Beta
4% [ 3 ]

Gamma
15% [ 11 ]

Delta
27% [ 20 ]

Epsilon
31% [ 23 ]

Zeta
21% [ 16 ]

Total Votes : 73

[TexasStooge]

Eventhough Zeta already developed, My vote's on...well...Zeta.