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.

Hurricane names with x. In other words the first hurricane of a season was always named Able the second Baker and so on. And in the Central Pacific you can have U names because they come from the Hawaiian language. 22 rows Every hurricane or Atlantic tropical storm is given a name from a list which is maintained by.

7 and finishing with Iota Nov. Names that start with Q U X Y and Z are not used for hurricane names. The latest batch of storm names have been announced - but you will never see a storm called Quentin Ursula Xavier Yoko or Zara.

The Met Office has teamed up with partners to. This group maintains six alphabetic lists of twenty-one names. There are no Q U X Y or Z names because of the lack of usable names that begin with those letters.

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. The lists include names that are common in English Spanish and French speaking cultures. The naming of North Atlantic tropical cyclones is currently under the oversight of the Hurricane Committee of the World Meteorological Organization WMO.

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. After the original list of names was exhausted nine storms bore the Greek letter names starting with Alpha on Sept. Tropical Storm and Hurricane Names 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2023 2023 2024 Hurricane Katrina.

If there are more than 21 storms in a year as there were in 2005 the rest of the storms are named. 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 last time we dipped into the Greek alphabet was in 2005 when the Atlantic had 27 recorded hurricanes.