2010 What-might-have-been Atlantic hurricane season (Cooper)

The 2010 Atlantic hurricane season was a hyperactive, destructive, and deadly Atlantic hurricane season, as well as the first in a group of three extremely active Atlantic hurricane seasons. It featured a total 23 named storms, 14 hurricanes, and 8 major hurricanes, making 2010 the second-most active season on record, behind only the 2005 season. The season officially started on June 1 and ended on November 30. These dates historically describe the period 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 2010. The names not retired from this list were used again in the 2016 season. This was the same list used in the 2004 season, with the exceptions of Colin, Ethan, Fiona, Igor, and Julia, which replaced Charley, Earl, Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne, respectively. The names Colin, Ethan, Fiona, Igor, Julia, Tomas, Virginie, and Walter were used for the first (and only, in the cases of Igor and Walter) time this year.

Retirement
On March 16, 2011, at the 33rd session of the RA IV hurricane committee, the World Meteorological Association retired the names Igor, Karl, Matthew, and Walter from its rotating name lists due to the amount of damage and deaths they caused, and they will not be used again for another Atlantic hurricane. They were replaced with Ian, Kurt, Martin, and Wayne for the 2016 season, respectively.