In mid-October, NOAA began tracking Tropical Storm Vince, thesecond to the last name on its list for this year. The 2005hurricane season was the second busiest on record, with 20 namedstorms. Vince, the 11th hurricane of the season, is the first stormin the Atlantic Basin to begin with the letter V since storms beganacquiring names in 1953.
|Although this year experienced the most named storms, thegreatest number of storms in a single season was 21 in 1933. Thehurricane seasons of 1887 (unnamed storms) and 1995 (Allison toTanya) each had 19 storms. Hurricane statistics date back to1851.
|Wilma is the final name on the 2005 list, which contains only 21names. As relatively few names begin with the letters Q, U, X, Y,and Z, those letters have been skipped.
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