The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season was so active that forecasters resorted to naming storms with letters from the Greek alphabet for only the second time in history. Turns out, it was the final time.
The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season has already crossed more than two dozen names off its original list and has moved into the Greek alphabet for only the second time in history. Multiple storms have ...
The super-active 2005 and 2020 hurricane seasons were both so busy that some storms were named using the Greek alphabet. But problems arose in 2020, leading to a new list of names to roll into. Each ...
As of now, there is no “plan B” if the Greek alphabet is exhausted. However, those odds are infinitesimal. Hurricanes have been named since 1953, and the list of 21 names (Q, U, X,Y, and Z are not ...
The entire Greek alphabet was banned from hurricane name usage after the record 2020 season. The names on this list range from common names to foreign names to hard-to-pronounce monikers Having your ...
It’s hoped they’ll be less ‘stigmatizing and discriminatory’ than country-based labels It’s hoped they’ll be less ‘stigmatizing and discriminatory’ than country-based labels is a reporter with five ...