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.

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 ...

Storm names:There's only one name left on the 2020 list of hurricane names. Next up: The Greek alphabet. 2020 hurricane season: Storms Alpha and Beta form: Season has been so busy, we have to use ...

Atlantic-basin hurricanes will no longer be named using Greek letters. ... The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season was only the second year in which the Greek alphabet had to be used to name storms.

ATLANTA — The World Meteorological Organization announced this past week that they will no longer use the Greek alphabet as a supplemental tropical cyclone list of names, citing confusion around ...

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.

The Greek alphabet will be replaced by a supplemental list of names using the same rules as the main Atlantic hurricane season naming list — a list of names A-Z but excluding the letters Q, U, X ...

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. Last year’s Atlantic ...

The Greek alphabet contains 24 letters but there is no plan yet as to where to go next if they are exhausted. Epsilon, Zeta, Eta, Theta and Iota have already been ascribed to variants of interest ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) rolled out a new naming system for tracking COVID-19 variants that the agency says creates “easy-to-pronounce and non-stigmatizing” labels for the new ...

Three hurricane names were retired from the highly-active 2020 Atlantic season, and the use of the Greek alphabet was decided to be discontinued during a World Meteorological Organization ...