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Storms that are notoriously deadly and/or destructive have their names retired from future use.Sign up for the Morning Brief email newsletterTwo names from the 2022 Atlantic Hurricane Season - Ian and Fiona - have been retired and will not be reused again.
Storm names are removed from the list when storms associated with those names cause catastrophic damage and/or significant loss of life. Atlantic tropical storm and hurricane name lists repeat every six years unless a storm fits either of these categories. This avoids any confusion or insensitivity over the use of particularly infamous storms like Harvey, Katrina, Maria or Sandy to describe another future storm.A committee of the World Meteorological Organization – not the U.S. National Hurricane Center – is responsible for the tropical cyclone name lists.
Recently, almost all retired names were associated with a billion-dollar disaster and a tremendous loss of life.The 2022 retired storms combined for a total of $115 billion dollars in damage and 179 lives lost.Hurricane Ian initially plowed into western Cuba,
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