Some meteorologists, including former hurricane center director Neil Frank, say as many as six of this year’s 14 named tropical systems might have failed in earlier decades to earn “named storm” status.

“They seem to be naming storms a lot more than they used to,” said Frank, who directed the hurricane center from 1974 to 1987 and is now chief meteorologist for KHOU-TV.
Rush to name storms may be costing you money | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

as we all know this is to try to make the global warming theories work. we all know that a warm earth has less storms than a cold one. a cold Earth  has more extreme temp. differential that actually causes more storms if the whole planet is warm it rarely storms in comparison.
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