Ian re-classified a Category 5, among ’22 names retired

The winds, the fury, the flooding — there won’t be another storm like Hurricane Ian.
Officially, there will never be another Hurricane Ian.
Ian, blamed for killing two Central Florida men in 2022, including one in Kissimmee, has been retired.
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Hurricane Committee retired Ian and Fiona from the rotating lists of Atlantic tropical cyclone names because of the death and destruction they caused in the U.S., Central America, the Caribbean and Canada.
The deaths attributed to Ian include a Kissimmee resident at Good Samaritan Village who stayed behind after the community was evacuated, and a Haines City resident who suffered an injury while preparing and was taken to HCA Florida Osceola Hospital where he later died, according to media reports.
The storm also caused extensive flooding in Osceola County.
Ian was large and powerful category 4 hurricane that struck western Cuba as a major hurricane and made landfall in southwestern Florida as a Category 4 hurricane, according to the National Hurricane Center. Ian caused a devastating storm surge in southwestern Florida and is responsible for over 150 direct and indirect deaths and over $112 billion in damage in the United States, making it the costliest hurricane in Florida’s history and the third costliest in the United States.
In its postseason re-analysis, the NHC determined Ian reached a peak intensity of 140 knots, or 161 mph, just after passing the Dry Tortugas, islands just northwest of Key West, making it a Category 5 storm, making it the seventh such storm since Hurricane Matthew in 2016. Environmental conditions became less favorable soon thereafter, and Ian weakened slightly during the next several hours before it made landfall on the barrier island of Cayo Costa.
Idris will replace Ian when that list returns in 2028. Fiona, which hit the Lesser Antilles, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and the Turks and Caicos before moving northward and striking Canada as a strong post-tropical cyclone and killing 29 people in September 2022, was also retired and will be replaced by Farrah.