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Greek to the rescue as US runs out of hurricane names
The Atlantic’s record-breaking "crazy" US hurricane season got a bizarre European remake on Friday as forecasters ran out of traditional names and trotted out the Greek alphabet for subtropical storm Alpha.
And the geographically misplaced storm promptly sloshed ashore in Portugal.
- Seth Borenstein
- Brisbane Times
And they quickly had to use it again, when a tropical depression in the…