Alpha/Omega

[WALT]

Seems like a good thread to ask, how come the Pacific Ocean has names for the letters xyz (Xina, York and Zelda) and not the Atlantic basin?
I know the standard answer is the lack of names, but why the Pacific?

[Anonymous]

What's interesting is- that last May no one on here (including me)
was expecting 4 Strong Cat 4/Cat 5 (Katrina and Rita included)
storms to form this season. And this season is far from over.
There is no El Nino to put the tropics out of business, at least not
this year.

I expected 2 major US Landfalls....one (I GUESSED EMILY) in Pt. Arthur, TX as a Cat 4 in August...and one in September (GERT) that hit Hallandale Beach, FL at Cat 4...then Morgan City, LA as a Cat 4.

I was wrong with the names...although Emily got close to Texas....IN JULY!

I was right with a major in the Pt. Arthur area...and one in the Eastern LA area. One thing I also expected was a late season major hurricane (CAT 4) in the Caribbean (NATE) in November.

I apologize with my hasty generalization that no one thought of 4
cat 4+'s---> I have edited my above post to refer to a general opinion
as opposed to asserting that "no one" predicted it

By the way, your predictions here as well as your videos are
excellent

Thanks...I actually only expected 5 major hurricanes....Emily, Gert, Harvey, Jose, Nate...all reaching Category 4. This was my "HYPOTHETICAL PREDICTION" which I do every year..for the hell of it. Infact..in 2002 I remember I had Cat 5 Hurricane "GUSTAV" hitting New Orleans after weakening to a Cat 4. I thought that name would be big...thats why it was my gut of doomsday

[RattleMan]

Seems like a good thread to ask, how come the Pacific Ocean has names for the letters xyz (Xina, York and Zelda) and not the Atlantic basin?
I know the standard answer is the lack of names, but why the Pacific?

Because in 1985 the season exhausted the list, so they added it (they only got the X storm though).

[wxmann_91]

Seems like a good thread to ask, how come the Pacific Ocean has names for the letters xyz (Xina, York and Zelda) and not the Atlantic basin?
I know the standard answer is the lack of names, but why the Pacific?

Pacific names rarely get retired, so they don't have to think of X, Y, and Z names to replace.