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Meteorologists retire 'Sandy' from list of hurricane names

2013-04-12 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: The World Meteorological Organization has retired "Sandy" from its rotating list of hurricane names because of the devastation last year's storm by that name caused in Jamaica, Cuba and the northeastern United States, forecasters said on Thursday. Atlantic and Pacific storm names are reused every six years but are retired "if a storm is so deadly or costly that the future use of the name would be insensitive or confusing," forecasters at the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said. Sandy...

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