Hurricane names are reused every six years, unless there's a storm that causes a lot of damage or kills a lot of people. Then the name is retired and a replacement name is chosen.

You can read about hurricane naming here (http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml), including the name lists for all the areas around the world, and read the list of retired names here (http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/retirednames.shtml).

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