It’s now Greek to everyone, speaking of the beyond-bizarre alphabetic twist 2020 has applied to even the Atlantic hurricane season. Never have there been so many named tropical cyclones arising so rapidly.
The line-up of tropical systems has powered through the entire named-storm alphabet list faster than any other year on record. Hurricane namers are now scrambling to recruit letters from their emergency lineup, calling on the 3,000-year-old Greek alphabet to name any late-breaking tropical systems. Things have already gone Greekish, as Tropical Storm Beta dumps on Texas.
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner referenced what could be historic flooding by appropriately noting, “This is to be…
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