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The 2020 hurricane season was not only the most active season on record, it was just the second time ever we exhausted the list of pre-planned hurricane names and spilled over into the Greek Alphabet.

Nine tropical storms used the Greek alphabet in the record-breaking 2020 Atlantic hurricane season. That's deeper into the Greek alphabet than the National Hurricane Center has ever had to go.

The World Health Organization was following the Greek alphabet to the letter to label COVID variants. One rep tells KHOU 11's VERIFY team why they skipped Nu and Xi.

Here's what would happen if a storm with a Greek alphabet name was so damaging or deadly that its name needed to be retired.

According to the Greek alphabet, the World Health Organization was expected to name the latest Covid-19 variant “Nu” or “Xi.” But both names were seen as problematic.

In doing so, the WHO decided to skip over two letters in the Greek alphabet: nu and xi. The reasons for doing this remained a bit of a mystery until the WHO itself clarified the issue on Saturday.

Forecasters are forced to use the Greek alphabet for subtropical storm Alpha, which is bearing down on Portugal.

It creates names using letters of the alphabet -- except Q, U, X, Y or Z. Now, for the first time, it has to turn to the Greek alphabet. Turns out, Alpha poses no threat to the U.S.

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.