2010 retired hurricanes

[Hurricane Jed]

I doubt Greta was retired. Although listed, they did a full take-down of those lists after that year. In fact, all-female lists apparently were drawn up for 1979 and 1980 (the names that would have been retired if those lists got used would've been Dot, Franny, and Abby). So to an extent, I think Greta was spared. As for Gracie, I do think it was retired, but they can't find the papers on this one.

Thank you. I wasn't too sure. Maybe when reanalysis gets to those years we will know.

Actually, the WMO lists Greta's name as being retired here - http://www.cmo.org.tt/COMAG/COMAG01/Docs/TCP30-2006%20EN.pdf

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[Hurricane Jed]

I thought 33 people were killed and another 18 indirectly?

"Although media accounts of fatalities associated with Alex are conflicting, the storm is
believed to have caused 12 direct deaths in the state of Nuevo León, Mexico." Thats From the Alex TCR, so that's what I went by. http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pdf/TCR-AL012010_Alex.pdf

Maybe. Though the report didn't exactly go into depth on the deaths part or talk about the other areas in Central America where people were directly killed. I just have a hard time trusting info from NOAA. Often times I've been to a site thinking I've struck gold with the info it has only to find it is either inaccurate or out of date.

[Alacane2]

Does anyone know when the decision to possibly retire any of the names from the 2010 list will be made?

[Hurricane Jed]

They are currently meeting to decide that. March 7-11 I think. So we should know in a few days hopefully.

[CrazyC83]

Maybe tomorrow or Monday we will know.

[Hurricane Jed]

Maybe tomorrow or Monday we will know.

My fingers are crossed.

[HurricaneRyan]

I was wondering why it has been taking so long for them to announce the retired names.

They announced 2007's names on a Tuesday and 2008's names on a Wednesday.

[CrazyC83]

If no names are retired, there is no announcement - we just won't know until the operations plan is finalized in May. Last year was anti-climatic as no one was expecting any names to be retired.

[Chacor]

If no names are retired, there is no announcement.

Correct, although if no announcement is made, an email to Dennis Feltgen, the NHC's PR officer, some time next week should get a response on if that is the case.

[Hurricane Jed]

Blargh. I'm getting anxious waiting to see what names they retire.

[Hurricane Jed]

I want to pose a question does anyone think they might be hesitant to retire too many names? Like say in 2005 they probably could have retired Emily but didn't if they had that would have made 6. Its something I've wondered about for awhile.

[somethingfunny]

I think it's just a peculiarity about Mexico. But, I still expect Alex and Karl, and possibly Iogr, Matthew, Tomas or lolcole, to be retired. At some point!

[Hurricane Jed]

I do think we could see 5 retired. If one of them gets left out I would think Igor but that's just me.

[HurricaneBill]

My picks for retirement:

Alex (Mexico)
Igor (Newfoundland)
Karl (Mexico)
Tomas (St. Lucia)

[meteomaster]

I do think we could see 5 retired. If one of them gets left out I would think Igor but that's just me.

I think names are retired based on the media's interest in the peticular storm. The media this year felt they had better things to cover and kinda neglected the 2010 season. For example, Igor was the largest hurricane in the atlantic on record and caused significant damage to Newfoundland, yet there was hardly a peep about it in the news. Karl, major hurricane striking one of Mexico's largest cities, caused 5.6 billion dollars in damage and the only reason we knew about it were because of blogs and wunderground. Tomas, was covered by the media but only because of it striking earthquake hit areas and it was all but forgotten before it had even dissapated. This is the Twitter age, when people see disasters, its on their minds for a few days then they move on to another topic. What would have been a big story 20 years ago now seems commonplace. I'm sure if this was 1991, then we might have seen 5 names retired, but now we'd be lucky if we see any names retired. In my opinion, however, I think that they should retired Igor, Karl and Tomas.

[Macrocane]

I'm not that sure about that, sure media plays an important role but sometimes names are retired even with little coverage, look at Ike it was one of the worst US storms and it was overshadowed by the elections news anyway it was retired. Noel on 2007 is another example, it had little coverage even in Latin American channels (outside Dominican Republic and Haiti) but it was retired too.

[Hurricane Jed]

I agree. If media does play a significant role, why was Emily not retired in 2005? I seem to remember it getting quite a bit of coverage.

[Florida1118]

I could see 4 being retired...And the media and retirement?

"The only time that there is a change in the list is if a storm is so deadly or costly that the future use of its name on a different storm would be inappropriate for reasons of sensitivity. If that occurs, then at an annual meeting by the WMO committee (called primarily to discuss many other issues) the offending name is stricken from the list and another name is selected to replace it."-NHC

So...There you go.

[WeatherGuesser]

They are currently meeting to decide that. March 7-11 I think. So we should know in a few days hopefully.

If no names are retired, there is no announcement -

Sooooo, maybe none? Although I really don't see why y'all are so geeked up about it. If they do, they do. If they don't, they don't. Won't really change the price of fries at BK either way will it?

[Florida1118]

They are currently meeting to decide that. March 7-11 I think. So we should know in a few days hopefully.

If no names are retired, there is no announcement -

Sooooo, maybe none? Although I really don't see why y'all are so geeked up about it. If they do, they do. If they don't, they don't. Won't really change the price of fries at BK either way will it?

Well I think whether we see certain names ever again to be a somewhat important topic...