DAYTON — The OMGEA block is a common stalled weather pattern. It gets it’s name from the Greek Letter Omega shape. An area of ...

The World Health Organization is implementing the new system to avoid negatively impacting the countries where the strains were first identified Julie Mazziotta is the Senior Sports Editor at PEOPLE, ...

Anagrams aside, the new coronavirus variant’s name follows an established pattern of naming variants after letters in the Greek alphabet. Pedestrians wearing face masks against the coronavirus walk ...

It’s certainly possible that the WMO will have to address the issue of retiring Greek letters again once this season is over. The practice of naming tropical cyclones is typically a pretty mundane ...

Coronavirus variants of concern and variants of interest will now be named using a system similar to hurricane naming, wherein each variant gets assigned a letter of the Greek alphabet, the World ...

The World Health Organization said Nov. 29 that global spread of a new coronavirus variant, named omicron, could result in "severe consequences," as early research indicates it's possible that the ...

The World Health Organization has proposed new names for Coronavirus variants using letters from the Greek alphabet. WHO's naming scheme will be used to label noteworthy strains of the SARS-CoV-2 ...

For only the second time in history, the National Hurricane Center moved into the Greek alphabet for storm names as the season's 22nd storm threatens the Gulf Coast. Tropical Storm Wilfred formed ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) named the COVID-19 variants after Greek letters because it wanted to avoid confusion with the scientific names of the variants and prevent discrimination that comes ...

The emergence of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 has international health experts worried, financial markets roiled and the Internet confused over how the new name was chosen. The World Health ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Tropical Storm Wilfred formed in the Atlantic on Friday, claiming the final name on the National Hurricane Center’s list of names for the 2020 hurricane season. Wilfred formed in ...