My curiosity got the better of me so I looked up the name of the hurricane now off the South Carolina coast. According to the NWS it is the Spanish spelling of the name of the biblical prophet Isaiah. Why couldn't they have just used Isaiah.

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Bob DeWoody

My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events.

Depends whose turn it was to choose the name. Here on the other side of the Atlantic, the British and the Irish take turns to name the storms that hit both of us (our two countries together make up the British Isles, and we both get wet together). Occasionally, neither of us thinks the storm is worth naming, but someone further into mainland Europe gets hit bad, and chooses a name.

Storms don't respect lines drawn on political maps.

Even down here cyclones get named by the country who's waters that they form in.

Cheers.

I thought the metrological purpose of the island of Ireland was to keep the mainland dry - a function that residents of the Lake District, or Wales, or Manchester etc. would argue that the aforementioned island fails at performing.....

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

I thought the metrological purpose of the island of Ireland was to keep the mainland dry ....

Leprechauns don't like getting too wet. :-)

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

I thought the metrological purpose of the island of Ireland was to keep the mainland dry ....

Leprechauns don't like getting too wet. :-)

Thought they ray out of pots of gold for the end of all the rainbows.

Yep, they like firm ground not mud. :-)