New Storm Measures as Most Intense Ever for Atlantic Basin – New York Times

Hurricane Wilma, which appeared headed toward Cancun, Mexico, and possibly the Gulf Coast of Florida by this weekend, intensified into the most powerful storm ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean basin early this morning, with winds of 175 miles per hour.

Oh, goodie. The “named” storm after this one will be Alpha, because we’ve run out of names for this cycle. They could have named it Xena if they really wanted to.

I just hope we don’t get all the way to Omega, or the tinfoil theocrats will be insufferably smug about the coming Apocalypse.