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There are 26 letters in the alphabet but only 21 are set aside each year for potential tropical storm and hurricane names in areas tracked by the National Hurricane Center.<\/p>\n

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The names for the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season are Arthur, Bertha, Cristobal, Dolly, Edouard, Fay, Gonzalo, Hanna, Isaias, Josephine, Kyle, Leah, Marco, Nana, Omar, Paulette, Rene, Sally, Teddy, Vicky and Wilfred.<\/p>\n

There are no names for Q, U, X, Y and Z, and each of the 21 names alternate from female to male. This year starts with a male name and next year will begin with a female name.<\/p>\n

If some of this year\u2019s names seem familiar, it\u2019s because each year\u2019s names are decided six years out by an international committee of the World Meteorological Organization. If a storm name isn\u2019t retired after a season it recycles.<\/p>\n

This year, for instance, the WMO Hurricane Committee retired Melissa from its Atlantic basin name list \u201cbecause of the death and destruction it caused in the Caribbean in October 2025,\u201d according to a WMO press release. It was replaced by Molly \u2014 but that name won\u2019t be used until 2031.<\/p>\n

So a good chunk of the storm names used in 2020 are getting reused this year. Arthur, for instance, had been used in 2020, 2014, 2008, 2002, 1996, 1990 and 1984.<\/p>\n

The only new name in 2026 is Leah, which replaced Laura, a deadly and destructive Category 4 hurricane that struck Louisiana in 2020.<\/p>\n

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If there are more than 21 named storms, WMO initiated a supplemental list first available in 2021 for new storm names. They are Adria, Braylen, Caridad, Deshawn, Emery, Foster, Gemma, Heath, Isla, Jacobus, Kenzie, Lucio, Makayla, Nolan, Orlanda, Pax, Ronin, Sophie, Tayshaun, Viviana and Will.<\/p>\n

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Before 2021, if there were more than 21 named storms in a year it would take on a letter from the Greek alphabet for its name: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon and so forth, although the WMO also retired the storm names for Eta and Iota after their destructive strikes on Central America.<\/p>\n

Only twice has NHC utilized the spillover list. First in 2005 when it used six letters of the Greek alphabet, and again in 2020 when it required nine letters including Zeta, Eta, Theta and Iota. That was deemed potentially confusing and dangerous and thus begat the new augmented naming system.<\/p>\n

The NHC began naming storms in 1963.<\/p>\n

In addition to last year\u2019s Melissa and 2020\u2019s Laura, Eta and Iota, other retired storm names over the last decade are 2024\u2019s Beryl, Helene and Milton, 2022\u2019s Fiona and Ian; 2021\u2019s Ida; 2019\u2019s Dorian, 2018\u2019s Florence and Michael; 2017\u2019s Harvey, Irma, Maria and Nate; 2016\u2019s Matthew; and Otto and 2015\u2019s Erika and Joaquin.<\/p>\n

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Other storms that have struck Florida whose names were retired include 2005\u2019s Dennis, Katrina and Wilma; 2004\u2019s Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne; 1995\u2019s Opal; and 1992\u2019s Andrew.<\/p>\n

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