GENEVA, Mar 31 (IPS) – The writer is with Geneva Solutions, a non-profit journalistic platform dedicated to International Geneva.The World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) Hurricane Committee decided at its annual meeting to retire four tropical cyclone names from its rotating list after assessing the record-breaking hurricane 2020 season.

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