What do they do if they get beyond Z while naming hurricanes in a season?

Restart the alphabet?

What do they do if they get beyond Z while naming hurricanes in a season?
If we're unlucky enough to deplete the year's supply of names we won't simply start using names from next year's list. In that case, the National Hurricane Center will turn to the Greek alphabet and we'll have Hurricanes Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, etc.





Here is the list of hurricane names for 2008:


Arthur


Bertha


Cristobal


Dolly


Edouard


Fay


Gustav


Hanna


Ike


Josephine


Kyle


Laura


Marco


Nana


Omar


Paloma


Rene


Sally


Teddy


Vicky


Wilfred





You may notice that not all the letters of the alphabet are used.






Reply:Well, we all found out the answer in 2005. In the Atlantic and East Pacific, when they have run through the name list they then use the Greek alphabet : Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon,... etc. . At present there are no plans to retire letters of the Greek alphabet from the list, but if a very bad hurricane occurs with a Greek letter name, this may have to be revised.





In the Central and West Pacific they have a perpetual lists of names, so when one list is through they simply start on the next.





Since the name list has been started in the Atlantic in 1950 the furthest they have gone down the list has been Tropical Storm Zeta in 2005.





http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/B6.ht...
Reply:They use the greek alphabet alpha,omega,delta,gamma,zeta etc.....
Reply:Restart the alphabet...