Is your name on the storm list for the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season? Take a look
Is there a Hurricane Karen in our future? Perhaps a Tropical Storm Lorenzo?
The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season officially starts June 1 and runs through Nov. 30. The first storm of the season will be Andrea.
Other names on the list, Dexter and Jerry, might make you think of popular TV shows 'Dexter' and 'Seinfeld.' For Disney fans, Wendy and Pablo could stir nostalgia for 'Peter Pan' and 'Lizzie McGuire.'
And Karen could bring a bunch of storm memes our way.
Is your name on the list?
Take a look:
What are the 2025 Atlantic hurricane names?
▪ Andrea
▪ Barry
▪ Chantal
▪ Dexter
▪ Erin
▪ Fernand
▪ Gabrielle
▪ Humberto
▪ Imelda
▪ Jerry
▪ Karen
▪ Lorenzo
▪ Melissa
▪ Nestor
▪ Olga
▪ Pablo
▪ Rebekah
▪ Sebastien
▪ Tanya
▪ Van
▪ Wendy
Who names the storms?
The World Meteorological Organization curates storm names. And the way storms are named has changed through the years.
Starting in the 1960s, storms had male names. Since 1979, male and female names have been used for storms in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico.
Naming storms after the Greek alphabet, done only twice in history when there were so many storms in a season that all of the names in the regular storm list were used, was also discontinued after the the record-breaking active 2020 hurricane season.
Six lists of 21 names, in alphabetical order, are used in rotation, so the same names come up every few years unless they're retired. Storm names are retired if they cause major damage or loss of life, and a new name is chosen by an international committee of the World Meteorological Organization.
Earlier this year, the organization retired the names Beryl, Helene, Milton and John for the devastation those storms caused in 2024. Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton struck Florida particularly hard.
Miami Herald staff writer Alex Harris contributed to this report.
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