Some names live on after storms are gone

Jeff Brauner writes from Baltimore: “Have all the female hurricane names in use before the switch to both sexes been retired? Or are some still used?” The last year in which only female names were used was 1977. Only one name from that year’s list has been officially retired. That is Anita, dropped after the 175-mph storm that year killed 11 people in Mexico and left 25,000 homeless. Of the others, however, only Hanna is on the current lists, for 2014.