Tropical Depression Arthur, formerly Tropical Storm Arthur, decided to appear before the actual Hurricane Season started today, June 1st. The season lasts from now until November 1st. Of course there are some years when the storms don’t pay attention to the ending date either. So it’s time for the hurricane geeks to get a hold of their maps to plot those coordinates. Us coastal folks have to start thinking about what we’re gonna take if we are forced to leave our homes and which way we're gonna go should a monster storm head our way.

A few sites for the hurricane “diehards”:

Tropical Weather . . . Done Better™

Tropical Weather: Weather Underground

Tropical Weather and Storms: Hurricane Updates from Weather.com

And now for the list of names that will be used. After these names, the Greek alphabet is used as was the case in 2005:

Atlantic Storms
Bertha
Cristobal
Dolly
Edouard
Fay
Gustav
Hanna
Ike
Josephine
Kyle
Laura
Marco
Nana
Omar
Paloma
Rene
Sally
Teddy
Vicky
Wilfred

East Pacific Storms
Alma
Boris
Cristina
Douglas
Elida
Fausto
Genevieve
Hernan
Iselle
Julio
Karina
Lowell
Marie
Norbert
Odile
Polo
Rachel
Simon
Trudy
Vance
Winnie
Xavier
Yolanda
Zeke

Anyone's name on either list?