If a storm named by a Greek letter causes significant damage or casualties, it would be included in the list of retired names, but the Greek letter would still be available for use in the future ...

However, questions were raised about what happens if a Greek letter-named storm needs to be retired or if the entire alphabet is consumed. I previously discussed proposals for using a supplemental ...

Zeta is the 6th letter in the Greek alphabet. Hurricanes began getting names in 1950 based on the phonetic alphabet. That was abandoned in 1953 when hurricanes started being named after women only.

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. Adria ...

Starting this year, the Greek alphabet will no longer be used if we run beyond 21 named storms. We will go back to the letter "A" with the second set of names. "Adria" and "Braylen" would be ...

My best friend wants to name her baby after a Greek alphabet letter – people are warning that it’s ‘horrible’ Lauren Fruen Published : 16:01, 28 Dec 2022 ...

The new system, which was announced Monday, is based on the letters of the Greek alphabet. The United Kingdom variant, called by scientists B.1.1.7, will now be Alpha.

If the alphabetical list is exhausted before the hurricane season is over, new names are drawn from a secondary list of names. In previous years, the Greek alphabet was used, but due to confusion ...

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. Adria ...

Variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus are named after letters of the Greek alphabet and there is no evidence that the Omicron variant is a cryptic name that means “non-existing”, as claimed in a ...