Atlantic hurricane season names run out

2021 is only the third year on record that meteorologists have used up the list of storm names during the Atlantic hurricane season


Top storm years
	Named storms 	Hurricane strength
2021 	21 		7 
2020 	30 		14
2005 	28 		15

Tropical/subtropical storm 
Reached hurricane strength

U.S.
Gulf of Mexico
Caribbean Sea
ATLANTIC OCEAN

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21


2021 ATLANTIC STORM NAMES (data as of Nov 1)
1 Ana 		May 22-23
2 Bill 		Jun 14-16
3 Claudette 	Jun 19-22
4 Danny 	Jun 28-29
5 Elsa 		Jul 1-9
6 Fred 		Aug 11-18
7 Grace 	Aug 13-21
8 Henri 	Aug 16-23
9 Ida 		Aug 26-Sep 1
10 Kate 	Aug 28-Sep 1
11 Julian 	Aug 29-30
12 Larry 	Aug 31-Sep 11
13 Mindy 	Sep 8-10
14 Nicholas 	Sep 12-16
15 Odette 	Sep 17-18
16 Peter 	Sep 19-23
17 Rose 	Sep 19-23
18 Sam 		Sep 23-Oct 5
19 Teresa 	Sep 24-25
20 Victor 	Sep 29-Oct 4
21 Wanda 	Oct 30-


Forecasters will no longer use Greek alphabet to name storms after official list of names is used up. In 2021, supplemental list of names beginning with Adria will be used if needed
   

Sources: Bloomberg, NOAA, National Hurricane Centre 
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