Isis removed from list of hurricane names

There won't be a Hurricane Isis this year, or any year.

The name has been removed from the official hurricane list because it has become associated with the Islamic State terrorist group, also known as ISIS or ISIL, according to the World Meteorological Organization.

The WMO's Hurricane Committee met last week in Costa Rica and voted to replace hurricane names that the United Nations group decided are no longer appropriate, Reuters reported.

Isis, a goddess in ancient Egypt, was on the list of hurricane names for 2016 that would form in the eastern Pacific Ocean. It was replaced with the name Ivette.

Names on the hurricane lists are recycled every six years, unless a hurricane caused enough damage for the group to retire the name from being used again.

For example, the group "retired" the name Hurricane Odile last week because of the damage it did in Mexico last September, killing 11 people and causing more than $1 billion in damages.

There are separate lists for hurricanes in the Atlantic and the Pacific, as well as for typhoons in the western Pacific and cyclones in the Indian Ocean. The lists of names are determined years in advance.

This year's Atlantic hurricane season officially begins June 1 — with the name Ana.