Perhaps ANOTHER tropical storm?

[marmar]

A Caribbean disturbance could soon develop into the Atlantic's next tropical depression or storm and potentially pose another serious threat of flooding rainfall to Central America.

The disturbance, which is dubbed Invest 98L, is producing numerous showers and thunderstorms over the central Caribbean Sea and has become better organized.

This system is expected to become a tropical depression or tropical storm by early Saturday as it slowly tracks toward the western Caribbean, according to the National Hurricane Center. When it strengthens into a tropical storm, it would be named Iota. ...........(more)

https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2020-11-12-tropical-disturbance-central-america-flood-threat-iota

[In_The_Wind]

1. Getting creative with those names.

[2naSalit]

2. They're Greek letters...

They've been around a while, we just rarely hear of them.

[Mike 03]

3. I didn't know "Iota" was a Greek letter.

I knew the others, but Iota stumped me.

I always think of iota in the sense of "Trump doesn't have one iota of moral character."

[2naSalit]

5. It's the first thing that comes to mind for me...

As my dad used to use it in that sense when yelling at us. A quick search says that it's both the Greek letter "i,i" and meaning almost nothing.

[In_The_Wind]

4. Ah, thanks.

[malaise]

6. Perhaps? It's already a TD and will be TS Iota

by tonight