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The World Meteorological Organization maintains a list of 21 hurricane names for each year. In especially busy years, a ...
The latest name assigned to a tropical storm – Flossie – in the Eastern Pacific prompted more than a few raised eyebrows and ...
Atlantic hurricane season started on June 1, and we know the names of all the storms. Full list of potential ones, how each ...
Top experts from Colorado State University released an updated forecast for the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season.
After Tropical Storm Chantal made landfall in South Carolina over the Fourth of July weekend, the tropics are now quiet. Well ...
The list of 2025 Atlantic hurricane storm names has only one new name since the list was last used six years ago. The World Meteorological Organization opted to retire Dorian and replace it with ...
The name Dennis was retired after it carved a destructive and deadly path from the Caribbean to Florida 20 years ago in early ...
Here is the list of 2025 hurricane names: Andrea (AN-dree uh) Barry (BAIR-ree) Chantal (shahn-TAHL) Dexter (DEHK-ster): replaces Dorian, which was retired after the 2019 season ...
Location matters, too. Storms in the Atlantic and Eastern North Pacific basins get their names from 12 rotating lists — six per basin — that are maintained by a WMO committee.
Allison is one of the poster children that illustrate water is the deadliest weapon a tropical storm or hurricane has. This ...
The biggest example of a retired hurricane name in the U.S. was Hurricane Katrina, a category 5 hurricane which devastated Louisiana and other southern states and killed almost 1,900 people in 2005.
Who names tropical storms and hurricanes, and why? Before the 1950s, hurricanes were named by the year, order, and location where they happened each season. For example, ...