No Need to Fear Hurricane Isis

With 2015’s hurricane season just around the corner, it’s impossible to predict just exactly what will unfold. One thing’s for certain in the coming years though: Hurricane Isis will not blow down any doors.

The United Nations World Meteorological Organization has officially removed “Isis” from its list of future hurricane names, Time reports. The name was not intended for use with hurricanes that develop in the Atlantic. It was on the official list for the eastern North Pacific’s 2016 season, the Washington Post reported.

The U.N. removed the Isis name, replacing it with Ivette, because of the emergence of the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS), Time noted. Names are removed from the list if they are considered “inappropriate,” the magazine quoted U.N. spokeswoman Clare Nullis as saying.

As for the upcoming Atlantic Hurricane Season, which begins June 1, Colorado State University experts are predicting a slow season with only seven named storms anticipated, according to The Times-Picayune. Only three of those storms are anticipated to become major hurricanes.

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Should those prognostications come to pass, the National Hurricane Center says the seven Atlantic storms will be named:

1. Ana
2. Bill
3. Claudette
4. Danny
5. Erika
6. Fred
7. Grace

The National Hurricane Center began naming Atlantic storms back in 1953, the agency’s website explains. The list is now maintained by the U.N.’s meteorological organization and is recycled every six years.

To find out more about how storms are named in the Atlantic, visit the National Hurricane Center online.

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