What names have been retired from Hurricane?
Retired Atlantic Names by Year
| 1955 Connie Diane Ione Janet | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1972 Agnes | 1973 | 1975 Eloise |
| 1982 | 1983 Alicia | 1985 Elena Gloria |
| 1992 Andrew | 1993 | 1995 Luis Marilyn Opal Roxanne |
| 2002 Isidore Lili | 2003 Fabian Isabel Juan | 2005 Dennis Katrina Rita Stan Wilma |
Why do hurricane names stop at W?
The National Hurricane Center issues a rotating list of names every year. … Remember, if storms are strong enough to create enough damage, those names are retired. Because there are not enough names starting with the aforementioned letters to retire, they are not on the list.
Did Hurricanes used to be named only female names?
In the early days, hurricanes were referred to by where they hit or sometimes after saints. Then from 1953-1979, hurricanes only had female names. That changed in 1979 when they started alternating between male and female names.
What hurricane names will never be used again?
The WMO also announced the names of hurricanes that have been retired from future lists of names: Dorian (from 2019), Laura, Eta and Iota will never be used again for hurricane names.
Has there ever been a hurricane named Jill?
Hurricane Jill-Sergio was a powerful and very deadly Category 3 Hurricane that made landfall in the A.B.C islands and Costa Rica. It also made the crossover from Atlantic to East Pacific ,which the first to do since Hurricane Caesar-Douglas.
Why don’t they use XYZ in hurricane names?
“It’s just too difficult to find names beginning with X,Y and Z,” said NOAA spokesman Marne A. Friess. The same goes for Q and U, so the official slates of hurricane names (one for the Atlantic, one for the Pacific) have 21 names each. No matter.
What happens when hurricane names go past Z?
Additional storms after the “Z” name will take names from the Greek alphabet: Alpha, Beta, Gamma. The last time we had to use the Greek Alphabet to name hurricanes was in 2005.