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'Sandy' Retired From List of Hurricane Names

Names are usually re-used every six years

The world has seen the last of Hurricane Sandy – at least in name only.

The World Meteorological Organization on Thursday retired the name and will replace it with "Sarah" in 2018, the next year Sandy would have appeared in the rotation.

Sandy is the 77th name to be retired from the Atlantic hurricane name list since 1954, the National Hurricane Center said in a statement Thursday.

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"If a storm is so deadly or costly that the future use of the name would be insensitive or confusing, the WMO hurricane committee, which includes personnel from NOAA’s National Hurricane Center, may retire the name," the hurricane center said in the statement.

Sandy was technically considered a post-tropical cyclone when it made its landfall in Brigantine Oct. 29, 2012. But the storm caused 147 worldwide deaths, including 72 in the United States. The storm also caused approximately $50 billion in damage, the second most in history next to Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

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