Nicole gathering off the coast led me into a google hole about storm naming… https://i.imgur.com/RmekKJg.jpg

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Some of these storm names are really pathetic, like Kenneth who can’t seem to hit land. Personalities aside, the whole system is just a random pre-determined list of names and one of the 11 storm naming centers chooses from their list in alphabetical order.

“A name is retired or withdrawn if a consensus or majority of members agree that the system has acquired a special notoriety, such as causing a large number of deaths” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_cyclone_naming