At that time storms were named according to a phonetic alphabet eg Able Baker Charlie and the names used were the same for each hurricane season.

Hurricane names with x. These lists skip the letters Q U X Y and Z rotate from year to year and alternate between male and female names. If there are more than 21 storms in a year as there were in 2005 the rest of the storms are named. The letters Q U X.

None of the 21 names begin with Q U X Y or Z. There are no Q U X Y or Z names because of the lack of usable names that begin with those letters. 17 rows This is a cumulative list of previously used tropical cyclone tropical storm and hurricane names which have been permanently removed from reuse in the North Atlantic region.

With the naming of Tropical Storm Vicky on Monday morning this leaves only one name on the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season list. 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Names. The last time we dipped into the Greek alphabet was in 2005 when the Atlantic had 27 recorded hurricanes.

Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico approaching the coast. The History of Naming Tropical Storms Until late in the 1940s hurricanes were not officially named hurricane forecasting was then in its infancy. From Sally and Fred on to Gaston and Humberto the names designated for the Atlantic hurricane seasons of the years 2020 to 2025 range from the familiar to those which may be less common.

The 2020 hurricane season ripped through the alphabetical list of 21 traditional hurricane names which excludes names starting with Q U X Y and Z and into Plan B the Greek alphabet. The World Meteorological Organization has six different lists each with 21 namesone with every letter except Q U X. X Y and Z because there arent enough names to.

You can have X Y and Z hurricanes in the Eastern Pacific but there are only two names in the rotation and youd have to have a really busy hurricane season to go down that far so the odds of having to use them are slim but not impossible. The name selected comes from one of six rotating alphabetic lists of twenty-one names that are maintained by the World Meteorological Organizations WMO RA IV Hurricane Committee. The Greek alphabet comes into play after 21 traditional names like Laura and Sally are used starting with an A name and progressing in alphabetical order as new storms form.