The Atlantic’s record-breaking 'crazy' US hurricane season got a bizarre European remake on Friday as forecasters ran out of traditional names and trotted out the Greek alphabet for subtropical storm Alpha
The Atlantic’s record-breaking "crazy" US hurricane season got a bizarre European remake on Friday as forecasters ran out of traditional names and trotted out the Greek alphabet for subtropical storm Alpha. And the geographically misplaced storm promptly sloshed ashore in Portugal.
"It's crazy," said University of Miami hurricane researcher Brian McNoldy. "This is just off the charts. We’ve made a joke of breaking records." Alpha is odd in another way. It's misplaced into an area where storms don't generally brew. That’s so unusual that Alpha barely shows up on the hurricane centre’s real-time storm tracking map, which is focused on the Americas. Only the “Al” of its Greek name shows and it was expected to dissipate in less than a day.But Alpha fits with the rest of this season in another way.
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