WASHINGTON (AP) — Hurricanes Helene, Milton and Beryl were so nasty last year that their names are being retired.

Storm names are given on a rotating alphabetical basis. Particularly deadly or damaging storms have their name removed from the rotation.

After an extremely active and deadly 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, the World Meteorological Organization is retiring the names of three particularly devastating storms that broke records and made history: Beryl,

Hurricanes Helene, Milton and Beryl were so nasty last year that their names are being retired. The World Meteorological Organization on Wednesday replaced the names of the trio of 2024 storms that killed more than 300 people and caused more than $119 billion in damage.

These hurricanes of 2024 were either so destructive and/or deadly that an international committee retired their names from use in future hurricanes. That's happened many times in the past 70-plus years.

Beryl was the earliest Category 5 hurricane on record in the Atlantic basin and had a major impact in the Caribbean. A nation hit hardest by a devastating storm can request its na

They were most destructive and deadly: hurricanes Beryl, Helene, Milton in the Atlantic and John in the eastern Pacific are names no longer an option to christen future storms, the

Typically, names are repeated every six years. But once a hurricane becomes deadly, the name is retired from the list.