The names used for hurricanes in the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific rotate on a six-year cycle, with new names swapped in for storms that are retired due to their significance.
Hurricane season begins on May 15 in the Eastern Pacific, while in the Atlantic, the season starts June 1. Both seasons conclude on November 30 each year.
Hurricanes are named in alphabetical order, beginning with A on both lists.
There are 21 names on the Atlantic season list and 24 names on the Eastern Pacific season list.
Hurricanes names are recycled every six years, meaning names that were used and not retired in 2020 will be used again in 2026.
A hurricane name is retired when a storm is so deadly or costly that the future use of its name on a different storm would be inappropriate for sensitivity reasons, the National Hurricane Center said.
The Atlantic hurricane season this year begins with Arthur and ends with Wilfred. These are the names and their pronunciations:
- Arthur (AR-thur)
- Bertha (BUR-thuh)
- Cristobal (krees-TOH-bahl)
- Dolly (DAH-lee)
- Edouard (eh-DWARD)
- Fay (fay)
- Gonzalo (gohn-SAH-loh)
- Hanna (HAN-uh)
- Isaias (ees-ah-EE-ahs)
- Josephine (JOH-seh-feen)
- Kyle (KY-ull)
- Leah (LEE-ah)
- Marco (MAR-koe)
- Nana (NA-na)
- Omar (OH-mar)
- Paulette (pawl-LET)
- Rene (re-NAY)
- Sally (SAL-ee)
- Teddy (TEHD-ee)
- Vicky (VIH-kee)
- Wilfred (WILL-fred)
The Eastern Pacific’s season begins with Amanda and ends with Zeke. These are the names and their pronunciations:
- Amanda (uh-MAN-duh)
- Boris (bor-EES)
- Cristina (kris-TEE-nuh)
- Douglas (DUG-luss)
- Elida (ELL-ee-dah)
- Fausto (FOW-sto)
- Genevieve (jeh-nuh-VEEV)
- Hernan (her-NAHN)
- Iselle (ee-SELL)
- Julio (HOO-lee-o)
- Karina (kuh-REE-nuh)
- Lowell (LO-uhl)
- Marie (muh-REE)
- Norbert (NOR-bert)
- Odalys (oh-DAL-ess)
- Polo (POH-loh)
- Rachel (RAY-chull)
- Simon (SY-muhn)
- Trudy (TROO-dee)
- Vance (vanss)
- Winnie (WIN-ee)
- Xavier (ZAY-vee-ur)
- Yolanda (yo-LAHN-da)
- Zeke (zeek)
