With just a little more than a month to go, the busy 2021 Atlantic hurricane season exhausted all of the letters in its alphabet with the formation of Subtropical Storm Wanda.
The system formed late Saturday to mark the 21st named storm of the season, going through all 21 letters of the annual tropical naming system set forth by the World Meteorological Organization. It skips the letters Q, U, X, Y and Z. If another storm forms, the system will venture into a supplemental alphabet, with the first name to be Adria.
If that happens, it will be only the third time meteorologists have had to venture into a secondary naming system, first in 2005 and then in 2020 during that year’s record-breaking run that saw 30 named storms.
