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‘Isis’ Removed From UN List of Hurricane Names

Don’t expect Hurricane Isis to hit anytime soon. The U.N. has removed “Isis” from its official list of future hurricane names, deeming it inappropriate because of the rise of the militant group the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS), Reuters reports. Clare Nullis, spokesperson for the U.N.’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO), said it’s not unprecedented for the group to strike hurricane names. “Names are knocked off the list, which rotates every six years, if they are considered inappropriate if they caused too much damage and too much death,” Nullis said. She told TIME how the process works to take a name off the list: “There was consensus on this.

 

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