1981 Atlantic hurricane season (Rewritten)

The 1981 Atlantic hurricane season was a very active season, with 15 named storms, 8 hurricanes, and 3 major hurricanes forming. The season officially began on June 1 and ended on November 30. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin.

Storm names
The following list of names was used for named storms that formed in the North Atlantic in 1981. The names not retired from this list were used again in the 1987 season. It was the first use for all of these names since the post-1978 naming change, except for Arlene, Cindy, and Irene, which had been previously used in 1959, 1963, 1967, and 1971.

Retirement
In the spring of 1982, at the 4th session of the RA IV hurricane committee, the World Meteorological Organization retired the name Irene from its rotating name lists due to the deaths and damage it caused, and it will not be used again for another Atlantic hurricane. It was replaced with Irma for the 1987 season.