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Its time (June) to watch for Anna...MIAMI, Florida,May 31 (Reuters): The I960 hurricane season officially begins tomorrow (June 1) but the party won't start until the .girls'show up.Storm watchers can start looking for Hurricane Anna to make ’her debut somewhere. In tropical-waters. Whether she and her alphabetically named sisters wind up at sea or on land is what makes the season Interesting.Hie “leaMB” . means 1 only- * that teletype and radio heoheps connecting the U.S. Weather Bureau's hurricane centre here with stations along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico* coasts arid the Islands of the Caribbean g* on a 24-hour day basis. Into season runs through. November although Hurricane Central officials report storms of hurricane force have been reported In every month of they»a.r* ,Auaa will be followed by 'Blanche, Carol; Debbie, Eve, Francelia. Gerda, Holly, Inga, Jenny, Kara.'Xaurie, Martha, Netty, Orva, Peggy, Rhoda, Sadie, Tanya, Virgy and Wendy.Chances of the weathermen having to come up with Zenatobia or some such name are remote, said Dr, Robert H.Simpson, Weather Bureau director here, the peak season was 1933 when 21 storms were logged. ' , .A hew policy this year-retires the names of some of the more noteworthy tempests of the past; Dr. Simpson said.No more, hurricanes will be named Cleo, nineteen fifty-eight’s Cleo was the first storm Into which a research jHane was flown. Then cams another Cleo In 1004 with * Tecord of damage in Florida.likewise, there will- be no Betsys or Donnas — they were killers. And as future storms make bad namesfor themselves, their designations wiil be retired.Dr. Simpson said huiricane names were developed H|n a perfectly bureaucratic process-frthrough an interdepart-• ‘ mental committoej?Names were chosen for easy pronunciation m English, French arid Spanish, and earners watch out for tags which plight be considered bad taste.explained,«when Eisenhower was President we wouldn’t have natped lt;ne Mamie.*?heavymore. ..: 4*WeIl, for. Instance’’, he
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Kingston Gleaner
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Sun, Jun 01, 1969
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