Potential areas of tropical development being monitored 01:31
By Allison Chinchar
CNN Meteorologist
(CNN) - The Atlantic hurricane season has exhausted the English alphabet and now is working on the Greek alphabet.
A system moving north toward the Yucatán Peninsula and west of Cuba is likely to become the 24th named storm of the season. The system is not very strong now, but the National Hurricane Center (NHC) has given it a 70% chance of developing into a named storm in the next five days.
If the system does get named it will become Tropical Storm Gamma, the third letter in the Greek alphabet. The NHC has resorted to using the Greek alphabet for only the second time in recorded history because the original list of 21 names has been used this season.
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