As the tropics grow cyclones, appearing more and more often and earlier in the year over the warmer waters of the seas and especially the Atlantic, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) decided to stop this year the use of the Greek alphabet for naming these cyclones.
The competent committee of the WHO ruled that last year’s use of names from Greek letters caused confusion and focused more on the “exoticism” of Greek letters than on the danger posed by cyclones. In addition, he considered that in 2020 the “baptism” of cyclones with the names “Zita”, “Ita” and “Theta”, which sound similar (at least to the ears of English speakers…), caused problems, especially when two storms occurred simultaneously with such names from Greek letters.
The Greek alphabet has been used only twice in 2005 and nine times in 2020 to name tropical cyclones in the Atlantic. Especially last year it was deemed necessary to use it, because there were many cyclones and the provided Latin names had been exhausted.
After the new decision of the PMO, this year even if there are more Atlantic cyclones and thunderstorms than the 21 for which English names have been predicted, the meteorologists will not resort to the Greek alphabet again, but will use other names.
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