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 letters Q, U, X ...

Get out the Greek alphabet for the rest of 2020: Storms Alpha and Beta have formed. Before them, Wilfred was the earliest "W" storm on record.

With the historic peak of the Atlantic hurricane season right around the corner, it's looking more likely forecasters will run out of traditional storm names.

Alpha is paired with beta (β), the second letter of the Greek alphabet, which measures an asset’s volatility. In actively managed mutual funds and ETFs , alpha is viewed as an indicator of fund ...

For only the second time in history, we've run out of letters for named storms so we've moved to the Greek alphabet.

Tropical storms have blown through 2020's predetermined A-W names and now must use Greek letters – a practice required only once before, during the record-breaking 2005 hurricane season.

The WHO has a list of existing “variants of concern” and “variants of interest” that have been given new labels under the Greek alphabet naming scheme. “Alpha” refers to B.1.1.7, the ...

Bye Alpha, Eta: Greek alphabet ditched for hurricane names. By Associated Press. ... The Greek alphabet had only been used twice in 2005 and nine times last year in a record-shattering ...

The Greek Alphabet We are well into another major release cycle of Linux distributions, and things are getting interesting. Written by J.A. Watson, Contributor March 18, 2010 at 10:43 a.m. PT ...

With the historic peak of the Atlantic hurricane season right around the corner, it's looking more likely forecasters will run out of traditional storm names.