Greek Alphabet Names For Storms

Greek Alphabet Names For Storms. Extremely busy hurricane season 2020 now taps into the Greek alphabet (WMO) Turns out the names were Greek to a lot of people, and forecasters worried about creating confusion. Subtropical storm #Alpha, also named today, is the first storm to take a name from the first letter of the Greek alphabet

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The Greek alphabet will be replaced by a supplemental list of names using the same rules as the main Atlantic hurricane season naming list — a list of names A-Z but excluding the letters Q, U, X. The infographic below lists the Greek alphabet in its entirety

Greek Symbols SVG

The Greek alphabet is being used to name Atlantic tropical storms now that the regular list of 21 names ended with Tropical Storm Wilfred. Greek letters had been used to name storms only once before, in 2005, another busy hurricane season that produced. (WMO) Turns out the names were Greek to a lot of people, and forecasters worried about creating confusion.

We've officially entered the Greek Alphabet for Atlantic storms. The WMO decision to stop using Greek names is much-needed In addition to ending the use of the Greek alphabet, the committee also retired four storm names, including 2019's Hurricane Dorian, and hurricanes Laura, Eta and Iota from the 2020 season.

The Greek Alphabet. The Greek alphabet has been retired as a way of identifying tropical storms, Last year, 3 storms named with a Greek letter were major hurricanes and were worthy of retirement