The Tropics are on Fire!!!

We now have 2 hurricanes..Jeanne and Karl, 1 tropical storm..Lisa, and 3 low pressure areas..2 in the eastern Atlantic and one that is the remnants of Ivan over southern Florida.

As of now:

Jeanne will remain at sea for at least the next 5 days.

Karl is moving north and eventually will head into the North Atlantic and be a threat to no one.

Lisa is moving west and is 7 to 10 days from the US mainland.
The 2 disturbances near the Cape Verde area will develop slowly and could be named Matthew and Nicole within the next 3 days.

The remnants of Ivan will move west across the Gulf and could re-develop into a tropical system.....they would not name it Ivan since it would start a mass panic, they would probably give it another name.

When we hit 21, we run out of names, and start on the Greek Alphabet

Why do hurricanes have names?

It's sort of related to this topic (BTW, I sympathize with those in the path of these monstrous hurricanes!)

Here is the answer to the question- "Why do hurricanes have names?"

http://www.fema.gov/kids/hunames.htm

Vash

Interesting. I see that Carmen, Elena and Michelle have all been retired from the hurricane name list. Too destructive!

Mathman