But what happens if a Greek letter requires retirement? It’s not an outlandish scenario given that we’re about to run out of names and it’s only the third week of September.

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 ...

Capital Weather Gang Running out of hurricane names, we’ll soon switch to the Greek alphabet. That could present a problem. Some meteorologists think a list of ‘extra’ names should be used ...

The year 2020 featured 30 named storms and reached Iota. However, questions were raised about what happens if a Greek letter-named storm needs to be retired or if the entire alphabet is consumed.

Four storms were so violent and deadly their names will never be used again, while an entire alphabet is also banned.

The World Health Organization has created a new system to name COVID-19 variants to avoid place-based names that can stigmatize countries.

The 15th letter of the Greek alphabet had been a fairly innocuous entity for 2,500 years. But in just two weeks, it became notorious. Omicron moved beyond classical philosophy texts, beyond the ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced a new naming system for notable variants of virus that causes COVID-19 based on letters of the Greek alphabet. The new names aren’t intended to ...

The Greek Alphabet Will No Longer Be Used to Name Hurricanes Nine Greek letters were pressed into service in last year’s busy Atlantic hurricane season. Officials said they left people confused.

The Greek alphabet has been retired from future tropical storms and hurricane names. Starting this year, the Greek alphabet will no longer be used if we run beyond 21 named storms.

Previously, the Greek alphabet was used to name storms if all of the initial 21 names were used. This naming convention was scrapped after 2020 when several Greek-letter storms were retired.

Covid-19 variants are to be known by letters of the Greek alphabet to avoid stigmatizing nations where they were first detected, the World Health Organization announced Monday. The new system applies ...