Environment
'Sandy' Is Retired as a Name for Hurricanes
The super storm was so damaging and deadly that the world's meteorologists will not repeat its name.
While there will certainly be more mega-nasty hurricanes that hammer the Atlantic coast, there will be no more "Hurricane Sandys." The World Meteorological Organization has retired that name from the hurricane list, signaling respect for Sandy's deadly and destructive career.
The organization recycles the same list of Atlantic cyclone names every six years. It retires the monickers of hurricanes that have been especially damaging, so as not to insult, confuse or freak out people by calling the next cyclone down the pipeline the same thing. Sandy certainly falls into that category, having enjoyed a relatively brief but calamitous tear through the ocean. Here's NOAA's recap: