Hurricanes Dennis, Katrina, Rita, Stan And Wilma To Be Retired

Friday, April 7th, 2006 Catastrophe Property

Never will Katrina be so little missed. Neither will Dennis, Rita, Stan and Wilma, four other hurricane names from last year’s devastating storms that have now been officially retired. Normally six lists of names are used in rotation for storms in the Atlantic-Caribbean-Gulf of Mexico region, but names of particularly destructive storms are retired. Some 67 names have been retired since storms were first named in 1953. The first to be dropped, in 1954, were Carol and Hazel. Last year’s five is the most retired in a single year.

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http://www.usatoday.com/weather/hurricane/2006-04-06-retired-hurricanes_x.htm

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