Record season: US meteorologists are short of names for 2020 hurricanes

The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season has been so intense that meteorologists have nearly run out of names for new storms. Fox News.

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The recent spate of activity in the busy 2020 Atlantic hurricane season has left only one name on the official list, with several weeks ahead, during which new storms are possible.

On Monday, September 14, storms Teddy and Vicky received their names - and there is only one name left to the end of the list. What happens when they run out?

After all 21 names have been used, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC), "additional storms will be named using the Greek alphabet."

Storms are named by the international committee of the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

Photo: twitter.com/WMO

The only time that the Greek alphabet was used in storm names was in 2005, when 28 named storms occurred in the United States, including the historic hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma.

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According to WMO, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) was supposed to use the Greek alphabet to name a tropical cyclone when the record meteorological event Alpha occurred in October 2005.

Other names from the Greek alphabet were used that year: Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon, and Zeta.

Photo: twitter.com/WMO

Another fact is that if the storm is particularly deadly or catastrophic, the name may be changed. For example, you will never see Hurricane Katrina again.

But it is worth noting that in 2006, WMO decided that since the Greek alphabet is not used often enough and no changes are proposed for the foreseeable future, it is not advisable to exclude any of these rare names from hurricane history.

“It was therefore decided that if a significant storm, designated by a Greek letter, in the Atlantic or eastern North Pacific basin was "deregistered", it would be included in a list of obsolete names, with year of occurrence and other details, but the specific letter Greek alphabet will continue to be available for use in the future,” says WMO.

According to the NHC, hurricane names are split into six lists that are used alternately and change every six years, so the 2019 list of names will be used again in 2025.

Forecasters from the NHC said Monday, September 14, that they are issuing recommendations for five tropical systems over the Atlantic Basin.

“This sets the record for the most tropical cyclones in this basin at one time, last set in September 1971,” the NHC tweeted.

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NOAA forecasters now forecast up to 25 named storms this season with winds of 39 mph (62,7 km / h) or higher; of these, 7 to 10 can become hurricanes. Among these hurricanes, 3 to 6 will be severe, classed in categories 3, 4, and 5 with winds of 111 mph (178,6 km / h) or higher.

This is well above the average year. According to data from 1981 to 2010, these are 12 storms with names, 6 hurricanes and 3 major hurricanes.

So far this year there have been 20 named storms, including 7 hurricanes, of which one is a strong hurricane.

NHC forecasters said on Tuesday, September 15 that another area of ​​bad weather, located a few hundred miles southeast of the Cape Verde Islands, has a 70% chance of developing a tropical depression over the next 5 days.

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