Yeah, I blogged about this already, but now Mainstream Media is catching on

(heh, tongue in cheek there, folks0

CNN.com – Atlantic storm names may go Greek – Sep 20, 2005: “‘We only have four names left on the list this year: Stan, Tammy, Vince and Wilma. If we have a fifth storm it would be named Alpha,’ said Daniel Brown, a meteorologist at the center, which is based in Miami, Florida.

At the beginning of each Atlantic storm season, the center publishes a list of 21 storm names. They alternate male and female names in alphabetical order.

The letters Q, U, X, Y and Z are skipped because not enough names start with those letters, Brown said.

Hurricane Alpha would be a first for the hurricane center.

‘There was one year in 1933 we actually had 21 storms. That’s been the most in the Atlantic. However, it was before we started naming storms’ Brown said.”