CROSSOVERS
Tropical Storm Alex is one of the rare systems that was 1st a named system in the east Pacific, crossed over into the Atlantic basin, and became a named system there as well. So rare that there's only been 5 others on record that have done so. It should be noted that these systems all degenerated to remnants/areas of disturbed weather while over land, before re-emerging into open water in another basin and regenerating into a tropical cyclone. When this happens where the system then regains tropical storm intensity, it gets a new name, which is whatever the next name on the list in that particular basin is. This used to be the case for all systems, including those that maintained a low level circulation, which is more rare, as well. In 2000, the WMO ( World Meteorology Organization ) changed the naming policy where if a storm's core holds together on it's journey from one basin to another, it would retain the same name. This last happened in 2016 when category 3 Hurricane ...