When the Atlantic Hurricane Season begins on June 1st, it won’t be bringing the Greek Alphabet with it.
In an effort to avoid confusion and to allow people to focus on the severity of a storm (and not on how to properly pronounce the storms name), the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has decided to stop using the Greek Alphabet when naming storms.
The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season finished with 30 total named storms — the most in any year on record — but three of those names will never be used again.
Something else that will never be used again: The Greek alphabet as a backup list. https://t.co/a2My1VIbXp
— CNN (@CNN) March 18, 2021
Last year the WMO ran out of letters to use in the Greek Alphabet with 30 named storms last year, so this will help avoid that issue as well.
Additionally, WMO has retired the use of ‘Dorian’, meaning there will never be another ‘Hurricane Dorian’. I think everyone in Nova Scotia is grateful to hear that!
