GOODBYE GREEK
The World Meteorological Organization is who is in charge of naming tropical systems. They use a list of names using the all the letters of the English alphabet, except the letters Q, U, X, Y and Z. That leaves 21 letters of the alphabet for storm names each season. There are 6 rotating lists currently in use. 2005 was the 1st time ever that the 21 names on a list had ever been exhausted. It was determined then, as we got closer to using all the names, that if there was another storm to develop after the W storm, that we'd then use the letters of the Greek alphabet to name anymore storms that season. That 2005 season ended up having a then record 27 named storms that season, with tropical storm Zeta forming on December 31st that year. It wasn't until this past hurricane season (2020), that we saw the list exhausted for a 2nd time. But this time it happened still in the peak of the season (mid September). Not only did the 2020 season break all the records for named storms (30), ...