I’ve even looked up the list of names for 2020 and can’t find Delta on the official list anywhere.
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You’re right, hurricane names are usually in alphabetical order…but it’s a bit more complicated than that.
They have a list of names already chosen for each season, and each region. Atlantic storms (like Laura) have a different list to Pacific storms. If they run out of names for that season and that area, any extra storms are given names of Greek letters.
2020’s been a very busy year for the Atlantic. They ran out of Atlantic-list names for this year four storms ago.
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