Hyperbolic Hurricanes

The Friday File: For the first time since 2005 and the second time ever, the Atlantic hurricane season has exceeded 21 named storms. As such, the weather service has run out of Latin alphabet storm names (Q, U, X, Y and Z are not used). So, we move to the Greek alphabet. In 2005 we got as far as Zeta, the sixth letter in the Greek alphabet.

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