Bye-bye, Helene, Milton and Beryl. Names from those nasty hurricanes are now retired

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Hurricanes Helene, Milton and Beryl were truthful nasty past twelvemonth that their names are being retired

BySETH BORENSTEIN AP subject writer

WASHINGTON -- Hurricanes Helene, Milton and Beryl were truthful nasty past twelvemonth that their names are being retired.

The World Meteorological Organization connected Wednesday officially replaced the names of the trio of 2024 storms that killed much than 300 radical and caused much than $119 cardinal successful damage. Brianna, Holly and Miguel instrumentality their spot successful the rotating six-year database of names for Atlantic storms acceptable successful beforehand by a committee of planetary meteorologists. Retiring the names of slayer storms is simply a regular signifier and the database of retired names is approaching 100.

Helene was by acold the deadliest and astir costly of the trio with its flooding claiming 249 lives, the astir successful the United States since 2005's Katrina. It besides was the seventh astir costly tempest successful American history, with damages reaching $78.7 billion, according to the National Hurricane Center. While it came retired of the Gulf and deed Florida's Big Bend portion arsenic a Category 4, astir of the deaths and harm were inland successful North Carolina and South Carolina.

Milton came connected the heels of Helene, bringing precocious winds, flooding and tornadoes to origin $34.3 cardinal successful damage, astir each of it successful Florida. Beryl, which successful June due to the fact that the earliest Category 5 tempest to signifier successful a season, killed 68 radical successful the United States, Grenada, Venezuela, Jamaica and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

In the Pacific region, the sanction Jack is replacing John, a Category 3 tempest that killed 29 radical successful Mexico.

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