Apparently "Letters Q, U, X, Y, Z are not included, which is in line with the US National Hurricane Center naming convention." Which means a lot fewer fun names

Feeble. If there aren’t enough (there are) you could always make some up, like Quartermain, Undulater, Xeco, Yannot and Zigmar.

Q, U, X, Y, Z aren't used just because they can't think of more than 1 or 2 names for those letters, and it's meant to be unique every year.

I consider this a lack of imagination, because I can come up with a dozen great Q names without trying.

Well quite