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 Hurricane Committee said it was not practical to retire a letter of the Greek alphabet into hurricane history. The first time the Greek alphabet was used was in 2005, with six names.

The Greek alphabet is used as backup for when the we run out of names for the season. This has only been done twice in 2005 and 2020. Since we have added two Greek alphabet letters to the retired ...

2020 was only the second year on record in which the full list of initial names was exhausted and the Greek alphabet was needed. They were also used during 2005's Atlantic hurricane season.

In the past, the Greek alphabet was used when there were more storms in a single hurricane season than names on the list. That’s only happened twice, in 2005 and 2020.

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.

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.

The organization’s Hurricane Committee announced Wednesday that the Greek alphabet will no longer be used to name tropical cyclones. The Greek alphabet was used whenever the annual list of ...

Just to remind people, the hurricane center tweeted out the entire 24-letter Greek alphabet, with a red slash through Alpha. McNoldy joked that after that there’s no official name list, but the ...

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.

Going forward, the agency will use letters of the Greek alphabet when discussing the variants rather than pango lineage, scientific names or by referring to them by the country they were detected ...