Record-Breaking Storm Season Spawns Slow-Moving Beta Along an Already Battered Gulf Coast

Just a few hours after Alpha was named, Tropical Storm Beta was named in the Gulf of Mexico. CNN Weather

Tropical Storm Alpha, named Friday, took the 2020 Atlantic Hurricane season into the Greek alphabet for only the second time in recorded history.

The only other time the National Hurricane Center (NHC) has had to pull names from the Greek Alphabet was the historic 2005 hurricane season.