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This decade featured hurricanes David and Frederic, the first male Atlantic hurricane names to be retired. During this decade, 9 storms were deemed significant enough to have their names retired. Together these 9 systems caused at least $9.41 billion in damage, while at least 10527 people lost their lives. No names were retired for the 1971 ...
Here's a list of the retired names according to the National Hurricane Center and Central Pacific Hurricane Center. 1954: Carol and Hazel 1955: Connie, Diane, Ione and Janet
The notoriety of these Atlantic hurricanes has led to the retirement of the names. The names were removed from the lists of hurricane names and have not been used since. This list does not include any devastating storms from the current season until they are officially retired by the World Meteorological Organization in the following year.
1971 – low-latitude hurricane that crossed Nicaragua, killing three people; was renamed Hurricane Olivia upon reaching the eastern Pacific Ocean. 1977 – skirted the northern coast of Western Australia, but ultimately affected no land areas. 1981 – major hurricane that traversed the Atlantic Ocean, affecting France as an extratropical cyclone.
Since 1954, 96 tropical storm names have been retired in the Atlantic, which occurs when storms reach a certain threshold and are conside When it comes to retired hurricane names, one letter ...
Deadly. Costly. Catastrophic. These are the main criteria the World Meteorological Organization uses to decide if a name, like Ian, gets retired.
The original WMO policy of naming storms with Greek letters stated that if a storm was destructive enough to warrant retirement of the name, the Greek letter would be used again, but the name, with the year after it, would be included in the list of retired names; for example, "Alpha (2005)" would be listed under retired names, but Alpha could ...
Storms beginning with the letter “I” are the most common tropical system names to become retired in the Atlantic Ocean, and Idalia, headed toward the Florida coast, has the potential to be ...