Upcoming hurricane names: Marco, Paloma and Teddy

Since 1953, Atlantic tropical storms have been named from a list generated by the National Hurricane Center. The list below is provided by the National Weather Service.

Twenty-one names are assigned to each year. If more hurricanes than names occur in a given year, the Greek alphabet is used. This year, for example, "Alpha" would follow "Wilfed."

Hurricane names following "Gustav" in 2008:

Hanna, Ike, Josephine, Kyle, Laura, Marco, Nana, Omar, Paloma, Rene, Sally, Teddy, Vicky, Wilfred.

Hurricane names for 2009:

Ana, Bill, Claudette, Danny, Erika, Fred, Grace, Henri, Ida, Joaquin, Kate, Larry, Mindy, Nicholas, Odette, Peter, Rose, Sam, Teresa, Victor, Wanda

Hurricane names for 2010:

Alex, Bonnie, Colin, Danielle, Earl, Fiona, Gaston, Hermine, Igor, Julia, Karl, Lisa, Matthew, Nicole, Otto, Paula, Richard, Shary, Tomas, Virginie, Walter

Lists for 2011-2013 can be found at:

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml