Nine down. 12 to go? What names remain on the 2023 Atlantic Hurricane Season?

The formation and eventual arrival of Hurricane Idalia has put most of Florida on edge. And as unsettling as having to watch and wonder what is going to happen, the harsh reality is we haven't reached the peak of the 2023 Atlantic Hurricane Season yet.

That comes on Sept. 10.

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Idalia is the ninth named storm of the season. If you recall from last year, the "I" storm was Hurricane Ian and it made landfall on Sept. 28. Idalia is churning out in the Gulf of Mexico on Aug. 29.

There are 21 names for the 2023 season.

What are the remaining names for storms in 2023?

Jose, Katia, Lee, Margot, Nigel, Ophelia, Philippe, Rina, Sean, Tammy, Vince, and Whitney.

What happens if there are more named storms than names on the list?

Before 2021, Greek letters had been used to name storms only once before, in 2005, another busy hurricane season that produced Hurricane Katrina, among others. In the 2005 season, six tropical cyclones earned Greek alphabet names.

Starting in 2021, an alternative list of people’s names is used instead of the Greek alphabet if the regular list is exhausted.

“There was a lot of focus on the naming convention of the Greek alphabet rather than the impacts of the storm,” said then National Hurricane Center Director Ken Graham, who is also chairman of the WMO’s hurricane committee. “Though we only used the Greek alphabet twice, there were challenges.”

This article originally appeared on Fort Myers News-Press: After Idalia, hurricane names list for 2023 still has 12 unused names