Published on: May 16, 2009 at 2:00 AM

The GFS is up to its usual May mischief of predicting some tropical or subtropical storm activity in the Gulf of Mexico over the next couple of weeks. Here are the 2009 Atlantic names…just in case…

Ana
Bill
Claudette
Danny
Erika
Fred
Grace
Henri
Ida
Joaquin
Kate
Larry
Mindy
Nicholas
Odette
Peter
Rose
Sam
Teresa
Victor
Wanda

In case you didn’t know…this is the 1979 list…the first one that featured male names in the Atlantic. A few names have been retired from that list, including Bob, David, Elena, Frederic, Gloria and Isabel.