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On March 17, 2021, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) disconinued the use of Greek letters for storm names.
https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press-release/wmo-hurricane-committee-retires-tropical-cyclone-names-and-ends-use-of-greek
Ana |
Henri |
Odette |
Bill |
Ida |
Peter |
Claudette |
Julian |
Rose |
Danny |
Kate |
Sam |
Elsa |
Larry |
Teresa |
Fred |
Mindy |
Victor |
Grace |
Nicholas |
Wanda |
NOAA has not updated its site with the list of alternate names. Below is the list from the WMO. The old link to NOAA is in the strike-through section.
Adria | Heath | Orlanda |
Braylen | Isla | Pax |
Caridad | Jacobus | Ronin |
Deshawn | Kenzie | Sophie |
Emery | Lucio | Tayshaun |
Foster | Makayla | Viviana |
Gemma | Nolan | Will |
Source: https://public.wmo.int/en/media/news/supplemental-list-of-tropical-cyclone-names-raiv
In the event that more than twenty-one named tropical cyclones occur in the Atlantic basin in a season, additional storms will take names from the Greek alphabet. [Per the name list at the National Hurricane Center web site: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml]
The Greek letters are: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon, Zeta, Eta, Theta, Iota, Kappa, Lambda, Mu, Nu, Xi, Omicron, Pi, Rho, Sigma, Tau, Upsilon, Phi, Chi, Psi, Omega