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During the record-breaking 2020 Atlantic Hurricane season, the National Hurricane Center used Greek letters to name some storms it ran out of alphabetized names. Now, it is retiring the entire Greek alphabet to avoid confusion or distractions.

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They should use Alpha123, Beta001🥴

Had a climate change denier at one of my hurricane demos. As I calmly and civilly confounded each point in her, already debunked, litany of misinformation, she became more agitated; eventually running out in front of everyone. They don’t want to learn.

Does it really matter what the name is? If it’s Hurricane Pierre instead of Hurricane Beta, is it any different? It’s still a hurricane!

Changing the name does not mean there will be less hurricanes; climate change is happening.

Or we could just like, not anthropomorphize them at all

It's all Greek to me.

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