The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Hurricane Committee has made significant changes to the list of hurricane names for the Eastern Pacific, retiring 'Otis' and 'Dora' due to their impact in 2023. 'Otis' was retired following its devastating effect on Acapulco, Mexico, in October 2023, while 'Dora' was retired due to its indirect links to deadly fires in Hawaii. They will be replaced by 'Otilio' and 'Debora' respectively. This marks the first time since 2015 that any names have been retired from the Pacific list, and it is notably the first instance since 1997 that two Pacific storm names were retired in the same year. In contrast, the Atlantic basin did not see any names retired for the 2023 season, a rarity that has only occurred four times this century and marks the first such instance since 2014.
No 2023 Atlantic Basin Hurricane Season names were retired by the WMO Hurricane Committee, the last time this happened was in 2014. Otis & Dora retired from Pacific. @danpeckwx https://t.co/kVqFHPIBWJ
Hurricane names Dora and Otis have been retired from the Pacific naming list after their deadly wrath. https://t.co/MszVpbzHUi
The @WMO Hurricane Committee retired #Otis from tropical storm names in the Eastern Pacific due to extensive destruction in Acapulco Mexico in 2023. Details at https://t.co/5036e7aVUj We have #HurricaneOtis imagery and info on the CIMSS Satellite Blog at https://t.co/ZWJKbEjifR https://t.co/2QRmN97Y7G
No names will be retired following the 2023 Atlantic #HurricaneSeason. This is the first season with no name retirements since 2014 (there were 17 from 2015-2022)! So... how does this naming and retiring work? https://t.co/Rz26EZBrri @MiamiRosenstiel @capitalweather
No names retired in the Atlantic Basin(2023 hurricane season) for the first time since 2014. https://t.co/1tJzSbqAPS
You may remember #Otis for its explosive intensification right before landfall in Mexico. FYI, no storm names were retired in the Atlantic basin this year https://t.co/5cBIG9UNq0
#BREAKING: Hurricane names Dora, Otis retired from Pacific list after deadly wrath https://t.co/RNZzoqkKtj
🌀The @WMO has retired #Otis and #Dora from the Eastern Pacific list of names and will use Otilio and Debora instead. https://t.co/SILjHuSO9v
2023 was only the fourth year this century from which no Atlantic #hurricane name was retired. Conversely, 2023 was the first time we had a Ctrl/East Pac name retired since 2015. https://t.co/P52jSwp8R4
Two Hurricane names have been retired, but for the first time since 2014 no names from the Atlantic Basin have been retired. More: https://t.co/v0ztq9ilrA
The @WMO has retired Otis and Dora from the list of Eastern Pacific hurricane names. Our full satellite video collection of these storms can be found on the Satellite Library: https://t.co/Xsa70h3023 https://t.co/nm1hlTaGBb
Dora and Otis are officially retired: https://t.co/rmylA0oqa4
The @WMO Hurricane Committee has retired #Otis and #Dora from the list of eastern Pacific names, replacing them with #Otilio and #Debora. Note that no names were retired from the Atlantic basin list--the first time since 2014. https://t.co/MDKOQffBVC
Dora and Otis are the first storms since 2015 to be retired in the Pacific. This is the first time 2 Pacific storms were retired in the same year since 1997 (Pauline and Paka). https://t.co/RISwLmOhcX
WMO #Hurricane Committee retired #Otis from rotating list of names in eastern North Pacific because of destruction in Acapulco, Mexico, in Oct 2023. It retired #Dora because of indirect links to deadly Hawaii fires. Otilio and Debora will be used instead. https://t.co/igZMC6lEyS https://t.co/7zmuepyDk8
https://t.co/x1SSjsqobb Could be in for a bumpy hurricane season in the Caribbean and Central America. Certainly not as "benign" as 2023.