Thread:Allanjeffs/@comment-2239664-20130826003704/@comment-3141559-20130826132632

FWIW, the longest-standing curse is for the 'G' name on List IV, which was used last year. The 'G' name, Gilbert, wasn't used in 1982, but then you had Gilbert '88 causing immense destruction in Jamaica and Mexico and becoming the strongest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded at the time. After Gilbert was retired and replaced with Gordon, you had Gordon '94 killing over 1,000 people in Haiti. All three Gordons since then (2000, 2006, 2012) have become hurricanes, with Gordon '06 becoming a major and Gordon '12 coming close. 5 uses of the 'G' name on List IV, all of them hurricanes, 2 of them majors.