The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season finished with 30 total named storms — the most in any year on record — but three of those names will never be used again.

The 2020 hurricane season was so prolific that the National Hurricane Center used up its roster of 21 alphabetized storm names. When that happens, the government pulls in the Greek alphabet.

T he Greek alphabet, traditionally believed to have emerged in the eighth century BC, is now undergoing reevaluation thanks to groundbreaking research at Leiden University. The writing system is ...

Forecasters have dipped into the Greek alphabet twice, in 2005 and 2020. In 2005, six names from the Greek alphabet were used. Then in 2020, with its record 30 named storms, ...

In the 2005 season, six tropical cyclones earned Greek alphabet names. Starting in 2021, an alternative list of people’s names is used instead of the Greek alphabet if the regular list is exhausted.

The painter’s “Greek Alphabet” series was a turning point in his career. A new show provides the first chance to see the richness of his experimentation.

An M with a small letter or set of letters above it stood for tens of thousands and higher. (Confusingly, in this instance the M represented the Greek ancestor of “myriad,” not the number 40.) ...