Ian and Fiona, two of 2022’s most catastrophic weather events, will no longer be used as names for tropical storms or hurricanes in the Atlantic basin, the World Meteorological Organization announced on Wednesday.
On Wednesday, the organization’s hurricane committee announced it retired Fiona and Ian from the rotating lists of Atlantic tropical cyclone names. Both Fiona and Ian developed in September 2022 and became major hurricanes. The storm names were retired due to “the death and destruction they caused in Central America, the Caribbean, the United States, and Canada,” the WMO stated.
