The Globe and Mail

COVID-19 pandemic has been a lesson in Greek alphabet, one variant at a time

The Greek alphabet arrived on the global stage and into everyday lexicon riding on waves of the novel coronavirus as the World Health Organization began naming variants in the Glagolitic script. As ...
WFLA News Channel 8

Greek alphabet will no longer be used to name tropical systems, hurricane committee decides

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The World Meteorological Organization has decided to make some major changes when it comes to naming tropical cyclones during hurricane season. The organization’s Hurricane ...
Seattle Times

With coronavirus variants, world gets crash course on the Greek alphabet

The 15th letter of the Greek alphabet had been a fairly innocuous entity for 2,500 years. But in just two weeks, it became notorious. Omicron moved beyond classical philosophy texts, beyond the realm ...
WTEN

Retiring 2020 hurricane names and the Greek alphabet

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10/WFLA) — The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season was one for the record books with 30 named storms, the most ever. There 13 were hurricanes, five of which were major hurricanes ...
The Hill

Omicron is an unwelcome but predictable lesson in the Greek alphabet

“We are going to fight this variant with science and speed, not chaos and confusion,” President Biden said on Thursday as he laid out his COVID-19 omicron variant pandemic response plan. But will the ...