The United Nations agency in charge of naming the world’s tropical cyclones has retired the name “Isis” from its list.
The name made infamous by the brutal militant group that operates in Syria and Iraq was due to be assigned to an eastern North Pacific storm that may come in 2016
But the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has decided that wouldn’t fly.
“The Hurricane Committee removed the name ‘Isis’ from the rotating list, and agreed to replace it with ‘Ivette’,” WMO spokesperson Clare Nullis told Reuters
“Names are knocked off the list, which rotates every six years, if they are considered inappropriate if they caused too much damage and too much death,” Nullis said Read more…
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