Ida will join the ranks of retired storm names after the Category 4 hurricane claimed dozens of lives and caused widespread destruction across the United States in late August 2021, even when weakening into a tropical rainstorm.
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Hurricane Committee maintains a rotating list of names that are used in each tropical cyclone basin. It will remove a name in the case of a particularly deadly or costly storm. Hurricane Ida met the criteria twofold.
