United States.- There have been so many major storms in the North Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico in this hurricane season that forecasters will soon run out of names and have to resort to the Greek alphabet. By the middle of the season, we already used 17 of this year’s alphabetical list of 21 names, with only Sally, Teddy, Vicky and Wilfred left.
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And if the trend continues, as meteorologists expect, this year will only be the second time we reach the bottom of the list, maintained by the World Meteorological Organization.
Satellite image taken showing the formation of tropical storms in the Atlantic Ocean. Afp
Atlantic’s list of 21 names is likely to run out, NHC spokesman Dennis Feltgen told The Wall Street Journal.
“If that happens, we will go to the Greek alphabet, which has been used only once before, in 2005.” There were six storms with Greek alphabet names in 2005, a year that included Hurricane Katrina, according to the national center of Huracanes.La Atlantic hurricane season 2020 stretches from June 1 to November 30, and we are currently in Tropical Storm Rene, the first occurrence of an R-named storm ever recorded. The NHC is already tracking four additional “riots.”
In the case of the United States, coastal areas have been devastated. Afp
Meteorologists warned in early August that this year’s hurricane season would be bad, with twice as many named storms predicted as for a normal season. That means once Sally, Teddy, Vicky and Wilfred come in and out, it will be time for Tropical Storm Alpha, followed by Beta, Gamma, Delta, and will continue for the duration of the miserable season. WMO maintains lists of names for hurricane seasons around the world and is reused on a rotating basis.
The season is expected to last at least a month. Afp
But names are withdrawn when storms are “so deadly or costly that future use of your name in a different storm would be inappropriate for sensitivity reasons,” WMO says on its website. Retirees include Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria 2017.You may be interested:Chinese virologist claims COVID-19 was manufactured in Wuhan labA California officer is caught stealing a dead man’s houseTrump is nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for the second time in a week
