The Greek letters Eta and Iota from the 2020 season will be retired as well, which is significant since before this year, the WMO made it very clear that it would not ever retire Greek names.

Some of the letters of the Greek alphabet like Zeta, Beta, Eta and Theta sound very similar and so do the letters Mu and Nu. This can lead to confusion. According to the World Meteorological ...

Also, in 2020 with Zeta, Eta and Theta, they sounded so similar it caused problems.The Greek alphabet had only been used twice in 2005 and nine times last year in a record-shattering hurricane season.

The World Meteorological Organization met recently, deciding to retire multiple hurricane names from the list and choosing to discontinue the use of the Greek alphabet. The World Meteorological ...

It was the second-ever season to spill over the list of preplanned hurricane names and into the backup list: the Greek alphabet ... pointed to the names Zeta, Eta and Theta, which all sound ...

Eta is the 28th named Atlantic storm this season, tying the 2005 record for named storms. However, this is the first time the Greek letter Eta is being used as a storm name because in 2005 ...