Bye-bye Beta: Greek alphabet no longer to be used when hurricane season runs out of names Doyle Rice USA TODAY 0:00 ...

Get out the Greek alphabet for the rest of 2020: Storms Alpha and Beta have formed. Before them, Wilfred was the earliest "W" storm on record.

Beta—which emerged in South Africa during its second wave in 2020—is still called 501Y.V2, B.1.351, 20H/501Y.V2 or GH/501Y.V2, depending on which naming system researchers use.

The NHC will continue any new named storms using the Greek alphabet. Next on the list would be Tropical Storm Gamma, then Delta, Epsilon and Zeta, the farthest the NHC has ever gone in its use of ...

I sometimes suspect that there are people in the world who think the first three letters of the Greek alphabet are Alpha, Beta and RC. We are well into another major release cycle of Linux ...

Next up: The Greek alphabet. 2020 hurricane season: Storms Alpha and Beta form: Season has been so busy, we have to use Greek letters Can storms named by the Greek alphabet be retired?

In 2005 there were 27 named storms, and the National Hurricane Center had to use six Greek letters. Zeta was the last-named storm of the active 2005 season, forming on Dec. 30.

Amid an extremely active hurricane season, Tropical Storm Beta has formed in the western Gulf. Here's what you need to know: 1. Tropical Storm Beta formed in the western Gulf as of the 4 p.m ...

Beta is the Greek alphabet’s second letter. The storm was expected to first batter the coast of Texas with lashing rains, making landfall around Galveston, before moving on to Louisiana by mid-week.