{"id":350,"date":"2005-10-10T08:39:43","date_gmt":"2005-10-10T08:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2005\/10\/hurricane_names_go_greek\/"},"modified":"2005-10-10T08:39:43","modified_gmt":"2005-10-10T08:39:43","slug":"hurricane_names_go_greek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2005\/10\/hurricane_names_go_greek\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Names Go Greek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Hurricane Center May Run Out of Names\" href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/forcesofnature\/050919_hurricane_names.html\">Hurricane Center May Run Out of Names<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Only 21 names are reserved each year for hurricanes. The letters q, u, x, y, and z are not used.<\/p>\n<p>The same list rotates every six years, so names are reused. The names of historical storms like Hugo and Andrew are retired. Katrina will certainly be retired.<\/p>\n<p>When the names run out (which has not happened since alphabetic names have been used) they will use Greek letters: Alpha, Beta Gamma, up to Omega The cited article above does not say what happens if they ever have to retire Alpha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Center May Run Out of Names Only 21 names are reserved each year for hurricanes. The letters q, u, x, y, and z are not used. The same list rotates every six years, so names are reused. The names &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2005\/10\/hurricane_names_go_greek\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}