Future 2017 Atlantic tropical storms will be named:
- Katia
- Lee
- Maria
- Nate
- Ophelia
- Philippe
- Rina
- Sean
- Tammy
- Vince
- Whitney
This year has already used the names:
- Arlene
- Bret
- Cindy
- Don
- Emily
- Franklin
- Gert
- Harvey
- Irma
Names of storms are often reused. However, any country can request the World Meteorological Organization retire the name of a particularly destructive hurricane. The list of retired names includes famous disasters such as Hurricane Hugo (1989), Katrina (2005) and Sandy (2012).
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Storm names alternate between male and female names. Storms in the Central and West Pacific have do not run out of names as they cycle through long lists of human names. For East Pacific and Atlantic names, storm watchers use a pre-selected set of human names. When these run out, they name the storms by Greek letters like Alpha and Beta.
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