Thread:Allanjeffs/@comment-3141559-20140807030740/@comment-3141559-20140808010241

You're welcome, Allan! :) My favorite EPAC name this year is a tie between Douglas and Norbert, the former of which unfortunately already went to a weak storm. Norberts have a history of being strong (the 1984 and 2008 incarnations both reached Category 4 strength, while Norbert '90 was also a hurricane), but then again, so did Faustos before this year. Fingers crossed this year's Norbert doesn't go the way this year's Fausto did! As for the Atlantic, if the English Edward was used in place of the French Edouard then it would be an easy favorite. Some of my favorite Thomas & Friends characters from my childhood have found their way onto the Atlantic TC naming lists, but mostly in the form of variants (Tomas instead of Thomas, Edouard instead of Edward, and Henri instead of Henry, for example; Gordon is really the only one left intact). I kinda wish the NHC had stuck with the English forms of those names (though I understand the need for cultural diversity), so that's why I can't call Edouard one of my favorites. As it stands, my favorite would have to be Arthur, Josephine, or Laura.