These hurricanes of 2024 were either so destructive and/or deadly that an international committee retired their names from use in future hurricanes. That's happened many times in the past 70-plus years.

Before passing almost directly over the Houston region on July 8, when it caused widespread power outages and contributed to dozens of deaths, Hurricane Beryl devastated multiple Caribbean islands and was the earliest Category 5 storm on record in the Atlantic basin.

After an extremely active and deadly 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, the World Meteorological Organization is retiring the names of three particularly devastating storms that broke records and made history: Beryl, Helene and Milton.