TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The World Meteorological Organization has decided to make some major changes when it comes to naming tropical cyclones during hurricane season. The organization’s Hurricane ...
After a record-breaking hurricane season in 2020, meteorologists and researchers around the world are figuring out ways to make future seasons better communicated to the public. Tropical storms are ...
Unlike what we've seen this September, five years ago couldn't have been more active. That included a bizarre six-hour ...
For the second time in the history, the National Hurricane Center is using the Greek alphabet to name new cyclones during this year’s record-breaking hurricane season. Subtropical Storm Alpha, the ...
They’re ‘distracting and confusing,’ says the World Meteorological Organization They’re ‘distracting and confusing,’ says the World Meteorological Organization Justine Calma is a senior science ...
The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season has already crossed more than two dozen names off its original list and has moved into the Greek alphabet for only the second time in history. Multiple storms have ...
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – The 2020 hurricane season was not only the most active season on record, it was just the second time ever we exhausted the list of pre-planned hurricane names and spilled over into ...
Here’s a brain-teaser: the name “Jesus” would have meant absolutely nothing to the man from Nazareth himself. In fact, the letter “J” never existed during his era. For anyone who’s ever wondered how ...
The Arian bishop Ulfilas devised a new alphabet for the Germanic Gothic language to translate the Bible, largely based on Greek.
Tropical storms have blown through 2020’s predetermined A-W names and now must use Greek letters — a practice required only once before, during the record-breaking 2005 hurricane season.