Daily News | ‘Ida’ is officially retired as a hurricane name. It left a legacy of destruction in Philly and elsewhere.
Agnes, June 1972Blamed for 117 deaths from North Carolina to New York, Agnes’ rains floated caskets out of their graves in upstate Pennsylvania.More than a foot of rain descended upon northern Delaware and caused widespread flooding throughout the region. It did end a horrific drought.Sandy, October 2012A living hell for Long Beach Island, and still the reigning champ for power outages in the Philadelphia region. In all, it was blamed for 72 deaths.
That decision is in the hands of the World Meteorological Organization, which also is responsible for the naming protocols.For hurricane trivia buffs: The 2020 season marked the first time that two non-names were retired — Eta and Iota, along with Laura. That year so many storms formed that they exhausted the alphabet and the later storms were identified by Greek letters.
The United States started using female names in 1953, ditching the clunky system based on the phonetic alphabet.
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