Climate chronicles: How are hurricane names chosen, and why are some retired?

The start of hurricane season is less than 90 days away, and before we know it, the first seasonal outlooks will start to be ...
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Is it true that the Greek alphabet will no longer be used to name tropical cyclones?

It is true. The 2020 hurricane season was just the second season since 1953 when the 21-letter list of names (Q, U,X,Y, and Z are not used) was exhausted and additional storms were named using letters ...
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With Alpha, National Hurricane Center turns to Greek alphabet for storm names

HOUSTON — The Atlantic hurricane season doesn’t officially end until November 30 and we've already run out of letters for named storms. X, Y and Z aren’t used so Tropical Storm Wilfred was the last ...
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Retiring 2020 hurricane names and the Greek alphabet

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10/WFLA) — The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season was one for the record books with 30 named storms, the most ever. There 13 were hurricanes, five of which were major hurricanes ...