Will Irene be retired?

[Mallow]

That won't ever happen, the hurricane list is still loaded with geezer names that nobody has named their children since 1935, the day we start having to use names like Asher, Aiden, Amber, and Noah we know we're in trouble, but even today it seems the names tend to lag 20-30 years behind common day given names....alot of the recent retired replacements while more modern names are names that people in their 30s and 40s have vs. children or teenagers. And then there is of course the idiocy of using non-American names, the way I see it is that the agency responsible for the basin should only use names from their country not names such as Pablo, Edouard, or Gaston.

Why? What's wrong with using names from languages/countries that are within the basin?

Perhaps it could have been two questions:

Will Irene be retired?

vs

Should Irene be retired?

Yes.

Yes.

[HoarfrostHubb]

Are there specific criteria for retirement?

$7-10 billion...top 10 costliest

Incredible flooding in NY and New England

Close to 50 US deaths

4 million+ losing power

But kinda meh wrt strength

I voted yes

[Juliancolton]

Are there specific criteria for retirement?

$7-10 billion...top 10 costliest

Incredible flooding in NY and New England

Close to 50 US deaths

4 million+ losing power

But kinda meh wrt strength

I voted yes

Strength doesn't matter... they've already retired one tropical storm and several Cat 1's.

[DMADKAT]

Of course that storm will be retired. Just the fact that it tracked up the coast and effected so many from mid atlantic to northeast with death and destruction is criteria for retirement. Vermonts worst disaster on record alone is enough. Theres alot of names, but few hurricanes that cause this much chaos for such large very populated areas. This one proves that it isn't the winds or the surge, but rather high rainfall rates over mountainess areas lead to destruction on a large scale. Yes, you gotta retire this one baby !