Doyle Rice, USA TODAY
Revealed 3: 49 p.m. ET March 17, 2021
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After six months and 30 storms, potentially the most lively Atlantic hurricane season on file officially ended Nov. 30.
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When it involves hurricane names, you can by no manner deserve to bother about the Greek alphabet all yet again.
On Wednesday, the World Meteorological Organization, which is responsible of hurricane names worldwide, announced that the Greek alphabet will no longer be used when a hurricane season runs out of names, as came about in 2020.
Right here is because the use of Greek alphabet names “creates a distraction from the communication of hazard and storm warnings and is potentially advanced,” the WMO acknowledged in a assertion.
In 2020, storm names integrated Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Epsilon, Zeta, Eta, Theta and Iota.
From now on, as a replacement of the use of the Greek alphabet, the WMO will use a supplemental list of names if the long-established list is exhausted because it used to be in 2020 and 2005. The list involves Adria, Braylen, Caridad, Deshawn, Emery, Foster, Gemma and Heath.
The WMO moreover announced the names of hurricanes which bear been retired from future lists of names: Dorian (from 2019), Laura, Eta and Iota will by no manner be used all yet again for hurricane names. That brings the overall to 93 Atlantic storm names retired since 1954. Dexter and Leah will exchange Dorian and Laura on the list of names.
Atlantic tropical storm and hurricane establish lists repeat every six years unless a storm is so lethal or costly that its establish is retired from future lists.
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Bye-bye Beta: Greek names will no longer be used when hurricane season runs out of names
