What happens if there are more storms than names on the list ?
In the Atlantic and East Pacific, if the list of names is exhausted in a single season, later storms are named with letters of the Greek alphabet: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta,… etc. . So if they ever have a Hurricane Omega you know it’s been a busy year. At the present time there is no provision for retiring any of the Greek alphabet names, should one be so terrible as to be excluded. The Central and West Pacific use perpetual lists of names.
