Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 13, 2012
Hurricane Irene is pictured over the Bahamas on August 25, 2011 at 12:15Z. High resolution (Credit: NOAA/NASA)
Irene has been retired from the official list of Atlantic Basin tropical storm names by the World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) hurricane committee because of the fatalities and damage it caused in August 2011 and will be replaced by Irma.
Storm names are reused every six years for both the Atlantic Basin and eastern North…
