As in previous years, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) issued a list of names for tropical storms using almost every letter of the alphabet. This year, the list totals 21 names.
The history of naming hurricanes dates back to the 1800's, with the earliest evidence of named storms found in Puerto Rico. People on island nation would name storms after the saint of the day from the Roman Catholic liturgical calendar for the day on which the hurricane struck.
However, they quickly realized that naming storms before they hit land reduced confusion when communicating advisories in cases where multiple storms were swirling in a region at the same time. When it comes to hurricanes, there's more to them than meets the eye. Here's where the word "hurricane" comes from and how these powerful storms are different from cyclones and typhoons.The National Hurricane Center doesn't decide the names of tropical storms. That role is the job of the World Meteorological Organization, a special international committee of scientists.
When the number of named storms in a season exceeds 21, the WMO uses a supplemental list of names beginning at the start of the alphabet with the letter A. This supplemental list is a new change to the system. Until 2021, the organization used Greek letters when the Atlantic ran out of names for the year. However, the committee said the practice was confusing because the letters Zeta, Eta and Theta sounded so similar it caused problems.
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