Fred,Ida and Joaquin replace Fabian,Isabel and Juan in 2009

[cycloneye]

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml

This is not a surprise that those three names haved been retired from the lists in the future as we know all the damage and deaths they did.

[HURAKAN]

I knew they were going to be retired but I didn't know the future names. My grandfather is named Joaquín so I'm happy with the new names, also Ida is a hispanic name.

Sandy Delgado

[cycloneye]

I knew they were going to be retired but I didn't know the future names. My grandfather is named Joaquín so I'm happy with the new names, also Ida is a hispanic name.

Sandy Delgado

They are putting more hispanic names as replacements lately.

[*StOrmsPr*]

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml

This is not a surprise that those three names haved been retired from the lists in the future as we know all the damage and deaths they did.

Also they finally replaced Lili with Laura

[cycloneye]

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml

This is not a surprise that those three names haved been retired from the lists in the future as we know all the damage and deaths they did.

Also they finally replaced Lili with Laura

Yeah I forgot to add that one.

[HURAKAN]

Let me add to this that the 2003 season saw the greatest number of retired names since 1995.

Sandy Delgado

[DoctorHurricane2003]

Generally, they replace names from languages with names from that same language....an exception could be Frederic/Fabian/Fred although Fabian may be an English name ????

Anyways, let's see:

1995/2001/2007:
Allison-Andrea (EN)
Iris-Ingrid (EN)
Luis-Lorenzo (SP)
Marilyn-Michelle-Melissa (EN)
Opal-Olga (EN)
Roxanne-Rebekah (EN)

1996/2002/2008:
Cesar-Cristobal (Both are SP and FR)
Fran-Fay (EN)
Hortense-Hanna (EN)
Isidore-Ike (EN)
Lili-Laura (EN)

1997/2003/2009:
Fabian-Fred (??)
Isabel-Ida (SP...thanks to the above for telling us Ida was also SP)
Juan-Joaquin (SP)

1998-2004:
Georges-Gaston (FR)
Mitch-Matthew (EN)

1999-2005:
Floyd-Franklin (EN)
Lenny-Lee (EN)

2000-2006:
Keith-Kirk (EN)

[vbhoutex]

SSSSSHHHHHHH!!!! Don't tell Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee they are using hispanic names!!!! She was complaining last year or the year before that not enough African-American names were being used!!!

[GalvestonDuck]

K's will almost always be English. I don't know many K words in Spanish. And I don't speak French, but I'm sure there are very few of K names in French also.

[HURAKAN]

In reality there are no Spanish words starting with the letter "K". In Spanish all the words with the letter "K" come from other languages, mainly English.

Sandy Delgado

[GalvestonDuck]

That's what I thought. I remember something during a game of Scrabble and I had to grab my Span-Eng dictionary. "K" simply isn't used much at all in the Spanish language.

[HURAKAN]

In Spanish the letters in the alphabet appear if they appear in the front of a word, if not, like "rr", "ll", they don't appear in the alphabet. The Spanish alphabet is, (A, B, C, CH, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, Ñ, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z.) Because the double r "rr", and the double l "ll" only appear in the middle of words they are not considered to be "letters". Examples are, "ferrocarril" & "caballo". Also, if the double r is between a vowel and a consonant you only write one r but pronounce two. Spanish is a confusing language, although I learned Spanish before English I always say that English is easier than Spanish.

Sandy Delgado

[GalvestonDuck]

Since I learned Spanish in Kentucky by teachers with Kentuckian accents, it's REALLY confusing to me.

I can read it and understand it much better than I can hear it and understand it.

[Anonymous]

LET'S JUST NAME THEM AFTER POLITICANS! Hurricane Lieberman hit NC as a category 3. Or Hurricane Bush devestated Islands. Tropical Storm Clinton blows through Leewards. LOL

[*StOrmsPr*]

Generally, they replace names from languages with names from that same language....an exception could be Frederic/Fabian/Fred although Fabian may be an English name ????

Anyways, let's see:

1995/2001/2007:
Allison-Andrea (EN)
Iris-Ingrid (EN)
Luis-Lorenzo (SP)
Marilyn-Michelle-Melissa (EN)
Opal-Olga (EN)
Roxanne-Rebekah (EN)

1996/2002/2008:
Cesar-Cristobal (Both are SP and FR)
Fran-Fay (EN)
Hortense-Hanna (EN)
Isidore-Ike (EN)
Lili-Laura (EN)

1997/2003/2009:
Fabian-Fred (??)
Isabel-Ida (SP...thanks to the above for telling us Ida was also SP)
Juan-Joaquin (SP)

1998-2004:
Georges-Gaston (FR)
Mitch-Matthew (EN)

1999-2005:
Floyd-Franklin (EN)
Lenny-Lee (EN)

2000-2006:
Keith-Kirk (EN)

Fabian is a spanish name but not Fred
also Laura is spanish name , as for Lili i guess it is too!

[Josephine96]

Laura is a good replacement name for Lili

[Anonymous]

Me also. I like the name Laura much better than Lili.

[Anonymous]

Lynn could have worked. When will Jack, Joe, Kelly, ever be used?

[Brent]

Uh... anyone remember Frederick in 1979? Cat 3 that hit Alabama? Fred seems eerily similar to that.

[HurricaneBill]

Uh... anyone remember Frederic in 1979? Cat 3 that hit Alabama? Fred seems eerily similar to that.

I know. That's like replacing Andrew with Alex and if Alex gets retired, replacing it with Andy.

I was thinking Fabian would get replaced by "Ferdinand" or something.