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.

The World Meteorological Organization has retired the names Beryl, Helene and Milton because of the death and destruction these storms caused in 2024.

Hurricanes are named in alphabetical order, in lists that rotate every six years. After a hurricane season is over, the WMO looks back at each storm and the impacts it caused. Typically, if a storm is particularly destructive or deadly,