Tropical Storm Zeta Caps A to Z Hurricane Season
Even though the hurricane season officially ended back on November 30th, on Friday, a new tropical storm developed in the Atlantic. The storm, which is not expected to affect land, became the 27th named storm of the 2005 season, and is tied with 1954’s Alice as the latest developing storm of the year in the Atlantic basin.
This means that the storm season lasted from Arlene, which developed on June 8th, through Zeta, which developed on December 30th. Arlene, along with Bret marked one of the few times that two named storms developed in June.
Barring another storm developing in the last few hours of 2005, the next storm will be Alberto, the first name selected for the 2006 season. The other names you can expect to see next year are Beryl, Chris, Debby, Ernesto, Florence, Gordon, Helene, Isaac, Joyce, Kirk, Leslie, Michael, Nadine, Oscar, Patty, Rafael, Sandy, Tony, Valerie, and William.
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