Re: Tropical Storm Names

Martin Rowley wrote:

... as I understand it, the named storm following 'Wilma' would be 'Alpha', then 'Beta' etc. The question was raised (the first time it came up - when we had the confusion between phonetic and greek), what would happen if a hurricane from the 'secondary' list needed retiring? 

Change the Greek alphabet? ;)

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