In the mid 1970s, PM Konstantinos Karamanlis proposed Latinizing Greek letters and making the Greek language phonetic.

For the second time in the history, the National Hurricane Center is using the Greek alphabet to name new cyclones during this year’s record-breaking hurricane season. Subtropical Storm Alpha, the ...

The World Meteorological Organization made the announcement Wednesday in a tweet. "The Greek alphabet will never be used again as it was distracting and confusing," the organization wrote. The 2020 ...

(WRIC) — Late August through early October is when we see an increase in tropical activity. September being the peak of the Atlantic Hurricane season is when we see the most tropical activity before ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — In a virtual media conference Wednesday, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) announced that it will be retiring four names from the Atlantic tropical cyclone rotation as well ...

(NEXSTAR) – A few months ago, the World Health Organization decided it needed a better system. Coronavirus variants with meaningful differences were springing up around the world and we didn’t know ...

The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is off to a record-setting start, and at its current pace, the tropical storm count may outnumber the list of 21 names that are used to identify systems -- something ...

(CNN) — The naming of the new coronavirus variant Omicron is causing some confusion. Since May the World Health Organization has been using letters of the Greek alphabet, in order, to name coronavirus ...

Pontic Greek, which closely resembles Ancient Greek still lives on today, in communities near Turkey's Black Sea coast.