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2021 hurricane names Six lists of predetermined names are used on rotation for identifying Atlantic hurricanes each season. The lists are maintained and updated by an interna tional committee of the World Meteoro logical Organization. Names alternate between female and male names alphabetically and are not named after any particular person. There are no names that begin with Q, U, X, Y or Z because of the lack of us able names that begin with those let ters. This season, hurricanes will be named the following: 12 Larry 1 Ana 13 Mindy 2 Bill 14 Nicholas 3 Claudette 15 Odette 4 Danny 16 Peter 5 Elsa 17 Rose 6 Fred 18 Sam 7 Grace 19 Teresa 8 Henri 20 Victor 9 Ida 21 Wanda 10 Julian 11 Kate
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Retired hurricane names Bummed your name isn't on the list? There could be a reason for that. If a storm is so deadly or costly to the impacted area, using it to name a future storm would be inappropriate and in sensitive. In that case, a committee will vote to strike it from the offi cial recur ring list and select another name to re place it, according to the organization. Retired names include Katrina (2005), Sandy (2012), and Michael (2018). Earlier this year, the organization also retired Dorian (2019), and Laura (2020), Eta (2020), and Iota (2020). Since 1954, 93 names have been re tired and replaced. Grace Pateras is a Digital Producer for the USA TODAY Network. Follow her on Twitter at @gracepateras.
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Is your name on the list? Not if you're named after the Greek alphabet. The World Meteorological Organization, which is in charge of hur ricane names worldwide, announced that the Greek alphabet will no longer be used when a hurricane season runs out of names, like it did in 2020. Instead, once the offi cial list of hurri cane names has been exhausted, anoth er list of names will be used. Hurricane season offi cially starts June 1, though the National Hurricane Center started issuing regular storm forecasts for the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico on May 15 this year due to six consecutive years of early storms. From Ana to Wanda, these are the names of the 2021 hurricane season.
Goodbye Zeta, and hello Sophie. If this year is anything like last sea son, there could be more storms than the list of 21 names. Unlike last season, any additional storms will not use the Greek alphabet. This is because the use of Greek al phabet names "creates a distraction from the communication of hazard and storm warnings and is potentially con fusing," the WMO said in a statement. In 2020, storm names included Al pha, Beta, Gamma, Epsilon, Zeta, Eta, Theta and Iota. In the case of a highly active hurri cane season, the following names will be assigned: 12 Lucio 1 Adria 13 Makayla 2 Braylen 14 Nolan 3 Caridad 15 Orlanda 4 Deshawn 16 Pax 5 Emery 17 Ronin 6 Foster 18 Sophie 7 Gemma 19 Tayshaun 8 Heath 20 Viviana 9 Isla 21 Will 10 Jacobus 11 Kenzie
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