Hurricanes Helene, Milton and Beryl were so nasty last year that their names are being retired. These storms caused more than 300 deaths and inflicted more than $119 billion in damage, prompting the World Meterological Organization (WMO) to remove them from the six-year rotating list of Atlantic storm names.

They were most destructive and deadly: hurricanes Beryl, Helene, Milton in the Atlantic and John in the eastern Pacific are names no longer an option to christen future storms, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) announced Wednesday.

The names Beryl, Helene, Milton, and John have been officially retired from the rotating list of Atlantic tropical cyclone names.