Mother Nature is sadistically helping us learn the Greek Alphabet. Tropical Storm Zeta has formed in the Atlantic, but is located in the middle of nowhere and threatens only shipping at this point.
Weird? Yes, but history shows that named storms have occurred during the winter before. Of course after Epsilon, anything seems possible. More meteorology here.
FINAL STRAW 1/7/06
Zeta finally died, but not before setting a record for the longest lasting storm crossing a new year. The last time we came close was in 1955, when hurricane Alice greeted the new year.
Speaking of the mid 1950s, most of the high temperature records we set here in west Tennessee this past summer were originally recorded in the mid 50s. That period also featured higher than normal tropical activity. Think there's any correlation?
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