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Sonny
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Username: Sonny

Post Number: 70
Registered: 5-2004
Posted on Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 7:12 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
How come they skipped the Letter Q for a hurricane
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Tech291
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Post Number: 232
Registered: 11-2004


Posted on Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 7:31 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
Good question!Also letters U,X,Y and Z are not used.
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/general/lib/reason.html
http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/archive/hurricane/names.html



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Road_warrior
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Username: Road_warrior

Post Number: 867
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 8:19 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
The reason why they skip those letters
is because they can not think of enough
names to use them. That reason was reported
on CNN last night.

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