Weve only got four names left unused Sally Teddy Vicky and Wilfred on the 2020 hurricane names list and we are approaching the peak of the Atlantic Hurricane Season.

Q names for hurricanes. There are also no U X Y. Are as follows. Why is there no Q name for a storm.

The list of 2019 hurricane names for the North Atlantic storms which are most likely to impact the US. Why are there no hurricane names starting with Q U X Y and Z. The names of men were introduced to the list for Atlantic Ocean storms in alphabetical order excluding names starting with the letters QU X Y or Z.

Andrea Barry Chantal Dorian Erin Fernand Gabrielle Humberto. On each of the six lists of names that are rotated every sixth Atlantic hurricane season youll likely never see a Quincy Ursula or Zachary. Alpha Beta Gamma Delta Epsilon Zeta Eta Theta Iota Kappa Lambda Mu Nu Xi Omicron Pi Rho Sigma Tau Upsilon Phi Chi Psi and Omega.

State begins in 1851 with the start of the official Atlantic hurricane database HURDAT as provided by the National Oceanic. The list which is sorted by US. Hurricane names are typically retired when the storms become history-making for causing destruction and death.

The hurricane center however says there arent enough Qnames to rotate every six years so they have eliminated all Q names from the list. In 1978 both male and female names went into use for typhoons or storms in the Pacific Ocean. The list of United States hurricanes includes all tropical cyclones officially recorded to have produced sustained winds of greater than 74 mph 119 kmh in the United States which is the minimum threshold for hurricane intensity.

The letters Q U X Y and Z are just not common. 17 rows This is a cumulative list of previously used tropical cyclone tropical storm and hurricane. If more than 21 tropical storms happen in any given year the additional storms will take their names from the Greek alphabet in order.