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These name , pick by the World Meteorological Organization , will be used for any tropical storm and hurricanes that form during the the 2012 Atlantic hurricane time of year . ( The list will be update with links to stories if and when storms with each name bod . )

Alberto

Our amazing planet.

In waning daylight, a satellite snapped Hurricane Isaac on Aug. 28, 2012, at 6:46 p.m. local time as the massive storm made landfall at Plaquemines Parish, about 95 miles (153 km) east of New Orleans.

Beryl

Chris

Debby

Hurricane Isaac landfall picture.

In waning daylight, a satellite snapped Hurricane Isaac on Aug. 28, 2012, at 6:46 p.m. local time as the massive storm made landfall at Plaquemines Parish, about 95 miles (153 km) east of New Orleans.

Ernesto

Firenze

Gordon

A satellite image of a large hurricane over the Southeastern United States

Helene

Isaac

Joyce

a satellite image of a hurricane cloud

Kirk

Leslie

Michael

Belize lighthouse reef with a boat moored at Blue Hole - aerial view

Nadine

Oscar

Patty

Volunteers and residents clear up wreckage after mobile home was hit by a tornado on March 16, 2025 in Calera, Alabama.

Rafael

flaxen

Tony

A pedestrial runs down a sidewalk in New York City during a bout of torrential rain.

Valerie

William

An illustration of a red orb very close to a glowing star.

Tropical Storm Theta

Satellite images captured by NOAA�s GOES-16 (GOES-East) showed Hurricane Lorenzo as it rapidly intensified from a Category 2 storm to a Category 4 storm on Sept. 26.

NOAA’s GOES East satellite captured this view of the strong Category 1 storm at 8:20 a.m. EDT, just 15 minutes before the center of Hurricane Dorian moved across the barrier islands of Cape Hatteras.

A hurricane update goes awry when U.S. President Donald Trump refers to a map, from Aug. 29, 2019, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., Sept. 4. See anything funny on the map

Hurricane Dorian, seen in this satellite view on Sept. 3, 2019, along with two other brewing storms.

NASA astronaut Christina Koch shared this view of Hurricane Dorian from the International Space Station on Sept. 2, 2019.

An image comparing the relative sizes of our solar system�s known dwarf planets, including the newly discovered 2017 OF201

an illustration showing a large disk of material around a star

a person holds a GLP-1 injector

A man with light skin and dark hair and beard leans back in a wooden boat, rowing with oars into the sea

an MRI scan of a brain

A photograph of two of Colossal�s genetically engineered wolves as pups.

two ants on a branch lift part of a plant