The World Meteorological Organization's Hurricane Committee announced Wednesday that they would not be using the Greek alphabet in the future to name storms.

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 ...

However, questions were raised about what happens if a Greek letter-named storm needs to be retired or if the entire alphabet is consumed. I previously discussed proposals for using a supplemental ...

He said he got phone calls from people who believed that Zeta was the last letter in the Greek alphabet and were asking what the next storm would be named. In fact, Zeta is only the sixth letter ...

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 ...

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.

The World Health Organization skipped a couple of letters in the Greek alphabet when it named the omicron variant. That fueled all sorts of speculation and claims on social media about why the ...

WASHINGTON — The World Health Organization on Monday announced a new, simple way to label coronavirus variants by using the Greek alphabet. In a press release, the health agency said the ...

The 15th letter of the Greek alphabet had been a fairly innocuous entity for 2,500 years. But in just two weeks, it became notorious. Omicron moved beyond classical philosophy texts, ...