Margot is the 13th name on the 2029 list of Atlantic hurricane names, so it is next scheduled for 2029. It is used that year only if the season reaches the letter M. Since 1985, two storms have been named Margot; the strongest, in 2023, peaked as a Category 1 hurricane.
No. Margot is on the 2029 list of Atlantic names, and it is not among the 100 names NHC lists as retired from the Atlantic (Tropical Cyclone Naming History and Retired Names).
Margot is next scheduled for 2029, when the 2029 list is used. The six lists rotate, so each one returns every six years.
A name on the list is used only if the season gets that far. Margot is name 13 of 21, and 25 of the 46 Atlantic seasons from 1980 to 2025 got that far.
Margot formed in the Atlantic in September 2023 and peaked as a Category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 90 mph (150 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 969 mb. It did not make landfall. The system was tracked for 11 days.
Hurricane Margot (2023): track and historyMargot formed in the Southern Hemisphere in April 1985 and peaked as a Category 1 cyclone with maximum sustained winds of 80 mph (130 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 942 mb. It did not make landfall. The system was tracked for 15 days.
Cyclone Margot (1985): track and historyNames go in alphabetical order, one per storm, as each storm reaches tropical-storm strength (39 mph, 34 knots), so a storm’s place in its season decides its name.
In 2023, Margot was the 13th name used in the Atlantic season.
Storms named Margot appear in more than one ocean in our archive:
Each ocean region keeps its own name lists, drawn up by its own WMO regional committee (Tropical cyclone naming), so the same name can be given to unrelated storms in different oceans.
The most recent was Hurricane Margot in 2023, in the Atlantic. It formed on September 7, peaked at 90 mph (150 km/h) and lasted 11 days. It did not make landfall. It was the 13th name used in that Atlantic season. Before that, the name was used in 1985.
Hurricane Margot in 2023 was the strongest, peaking as a Category 1 hurricane with winds of 90 mph (150 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 969 mb. It formed in the Atlantic in September. The weakest of the two, in 1985, peaked at 80 mph (130 km/h).