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The costliest hurricanes were Katrina in 2005 and Harvey in 2017, both with uninflated damage totals amounting to US$125 billion. Of the 41 Atlantic hurricanes with damages exceeding $1.01 billion after accounting for inflation (2017 dollars), 20 have occurred after the year 2000, though this list does not include 2018's Michael nor Florence.
[48] [49] Four sets of tropical cyclone names are rotated annually with typhoon names stricken from the list should they do more than 1 billion pesos worth of damage to the Philippines and/or cause 300 or more deaths. [50] [51] Should the list of names for a given year prove insufficient, names are taken from an auxiliary list. [50]
Here is the complete list of hurricane names for 2024, with the bolded names representing storms that have already taken place this year. Alberto. Beryl. Chris. Debby. Ernesto. Francine. Gordon ...
Clement Wragge was the pioneer in naming storms. The practice of using names to identify tropical cyclones goes back several centuries, with systems named after places, people (like Roman Catholic saints), or things they hit before the formal start of naming in each basin. [1][2][3] Examples include the 1526 San Francisco hurricane (named after ...
The Atlantic hurricane season lasts from June 1 to Nov. 30. ... 2024 Atlantic hurricane names. Alberto. Helene. Oscar. Beryl. Isaac. Patty. ... Juan Soto is 'the Mona Lisa' as MLB's top free agent ...
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has a rotating list of names for each Tropical Cyclone basin. Before the system was developed, hurricanes were named arbitrarily – an Atlantic storm ...
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.
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 ...